From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hannes Reinecke Subject: Re: rdac mode on SLES10SP1 Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 09:06:22 +0200 Message-ID: <46EA32EE.8060102@suse.de> References: <46E64DDE.7040705@linpro.no> Reply-To: device-mapper development Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: In-Reply-To: <46E64DDE.7040705@linpro.no> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com Errors-To: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com To: device-mapper development List-Id: dm-devel.ids Tore Anderson wrote: > * Kirill Cherkashin >=20 >> Could you advise me on next matter. >> We have DS4800 connected to SLES10&9. At the moment we're using 'nativ= e' >> IBM rdac driver but we're going to soon jump to Linux mpio. >> According to Novell's support site in SP1(with kernel 2.6.16) MPIO >> would be supported by in rdac mode. >> >> >> However, here I found that it should happened only with 2.6.23 kernel= . >=20 > The RDAC hardware handler is included (in a usable form) in the > kernel.org kernels starting from 2.6.23-rc4, if I recall correctly. >=20 > I assume SuSE has simply backported it to their 2.6.16 kernel. I kno= w > Red Hat has done the same for RHEL5.1, at least. >=20 This is the case. RDAC mode work with SP1. Occasionally documentation is correct :-) Cheers, Hannes --=20 Dr. Hannes Reinecke zSeries & Storage hare@suse.de +49 911 74053 688 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 N=C3=BCrnberg GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG N=C3=BCrnberg)