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From: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Does LVM have any multipath failover capabilities?
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:34:27 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1251848067.9444.8.camel@chandra-ubuntu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f3177b9e0909011627kfc0b7c1t2a1ab35d217b522e@mail.gmail.com>


On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 17:27 -0600, Chris Worley wrote:
> For example, two iSCSI drives are actually the same drive provided via
> two different subnets: if one of the drives becomes unresponsive, I
> need LVM to seamlessly failover to the other one.
> 
> Otherwise, what's the right way to handle this?

Build lvm on top of a multipathed device (which comprises of the two
paths), with a priority callout that gives higher priority to one path
than the other.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Chris
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-01 23:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-01 23:27 [linux-lvm] Does LVM have any multipath failover capabilities? Chris Worley
2009-09-01 23:34 ` Chandra Seetharaman [this message]
2009-09-02 13:26   ` brem belguebli

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