From: Scott Dungan <scott@gps.caltech.edu>
To: device-mapper development <dm-devel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: FS directly on top of dm devices?
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:01:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49E8A7EB.9070605@gps.caltech.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16F7C86087BE0247B20562A9E6B07DC781D2BF95@excnysm95bagp.nysemail.nyenet>
That is what we figured. Thanks for the reply.
Romanowski, John (OFT) wrote:
> Partitioning and LVM is optional, depends upon what you want to accomplish.
> Sometimes I make the file system directly on the multipathed device, as in
> mkfs /dev/mapper/mpatha
>
> Other than having more paths to the LUN it's no different then making a file system on an unpartitioned scsi device as in
> mkfs /dev/sda
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com [mailto:dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com]
>> On Behalf Of Scott Dungan
>> Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 7:52 PM
>> To: dm-devel@redhat.com
>> Subject: [dm-devel] FS directly on top of dm devices?
>>
>> We recently had an engineer from a large storage vendor suggest that we
>> make our file systems directly onto the multipathed devices without
>> first creating underlying partitions or using LVM. Having not run with
>> this method in production before, we would like to gather as much
>> information as possible first. Initial searches for documentation on
>> this method has produced few results, short of a Suse/Novell document
>> from 2005 under section 4:
>>
>> http://support.novell.com/techcenter/sdb/en/2005/04/sles_multipathing.h
>> tml
>>
>> Does anyone have any experience with this or can point us to more
>> documentation. thoughts or recommendations?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-16 23:52 FS directly on top of dm devices? Scott Dungan
2009-04-17 0:47 ` Christopher Chen
2009-04-17 15:55 ` Scott Dungan
2009-04-17 12:20 ` Romanowski, John (OFT)
2009-04-17 16:01 ` Scott Dungan [this message]
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