From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 19:26:04 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Ragnar_Kj=F8rstad?= Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LVM with multi-path disks? Message-ID: <20010806192604.A31281@vestdata.no> References: <3B6B30C4.B4427F3D@cup.hp.com> <20010804174049.B564@colombina.comedia.it> <20010805022800.A26419@vestdata.no> <20010805091201.A4490@colombina.comedia.it> <20010805003257.A2728@glines.org> <20010805095811.A4626@colombina.comedia.it> <3B6D85EB.4AFF6D2D@cup.hp.com> <20010805202558.A13863@colombina.comedia.it> <20010805234715.A30768@vestdata.no> <3B6ECD70.8445A213@cup.hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In-Reply-To: <3B6ECD70.8445A213@cup.hp.com>; from John DeFranco on Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 10:01:36AM -0700 Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: linux-lvm@sistina.com On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 10:01:36AM -0700, John DeFranco wrote: > Ragnar Kj=EF=BF=BDrstad wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 08:25:58PM +0200, Luca Berra wrote: > > > in *redhat* kernels there is a patch that adds multipath support > > > to the md driver, you configure it as a raid-1 array, but it is > > > actually a multipath configuration. > >=20 > > If I remember correctly, you configure as "multipath" not "raid1". >=20 > Do you know where the above is defined? I cannot find > anything in the raid documentation that talks about=20 > multipath? You need to use the RH kernel to get the "multipath" option. Unfortenately the md patch (from their source RPM) does not apply cleanly to a standard kernel, and it didn't look trivial to fix :( --=20 Ragnar Kjorstad Big Storage