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From: Austin Gonyou <austin@coremetrics.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Multipath without round-robin?
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 17:06:16 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40C8DB58.9090203@coremetrics.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040610203309.GA18186@c9x.org>

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You could just use the qlogic hba driver failover.

ql2xfailover=1 in your rmodules.conf

Jedi/Sector One wrote:

>   Hello.
>  
>   I'm trying to get multipath working with LVM2 (2.6.7-rc2-udm2 
> kernel) with
> an LSI storage array.
>
>   The array has two FC controllers, HBAs are two identical Qlogic 2340.
>  
>   On the array, "preferred" controllers are assigned to each LUN.
>  
>   Unfortunately, it looks like dm-multipath always does round-robin load
> balancing.
>
>   The result is that the array fills up the (SANtricity) error log with
> messages like "LUN was accessed through the wrong controller".
>
>   Is there any way to keep failover abilities without load balancing?
>  
>   Best regards,
>  
>        -Frank.
>       
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-06-10 22:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-10 20:33 [linux-lvm] Multipath without round-robin? Jedi/Sector One
2004-06-10 21:34 ` Chris Croswhite
2004-06-10 22:06 ` Austin Gonyou [this message]
2004-06-10 22:10   ` Austin Gonyou
2004-06-10 22:32   ` Jedi/Sector One
2004-06-11 20:06 ` Mike Christie
2004-06-11 21:02   ` Chris Croswhite
2004-06-11 21:34     ` Mike Christie

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