From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Ionut Nistor" Subject: Re: Multipath problem in a SAN enviromnent Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 09:37:23 +0300 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <00e901c330ad$158f1580$3351960a@EEL> References: <02d201c33023$13fd45a0$3351960a@EEL> <3EE78458.4411C4B5@SteelEye.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: To: Paul Clements Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Great, Do you happen to know if this patch was included in the kernel? If so, at what version? I need to know how reliable it is. Thanks a lot, Ionut ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Clements" To: "Ionut Nistor" Cc: Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 10:34 PM Subject: Re: Multipath problem in a SAN enviromnent > Ionut Nistor wrote: > > > I'm using a 2.4.18-ac3 kernel > > It just dawned on me that this kernel probably does not have the > following patch applied: > > http://lwn.net/Articles/8485/ > > If that's the case, you may want to move to a later kernel or apply that > patch. I believe the patch will fix your issues with the shifting minor > numbers causing problems. > > I did a brief test on SuSE's 2.4.19 kernel, which has this patch > applied, and everything worked, even after shifting devices around. > > -- > Paul >