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From: Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de>
To: Paul Clements <Paul.Clements@SteelEye.com>,
	Ionut Nistor <ionut@modulo.ro>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Multipath problem in a SAN enviromnent
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 12:04:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030612100423.GA14106@marowsky-bree.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3EE7585E.45D851CE@SteelEye.com>

On 2003-06-11T12:27:10,
   Paul Clements <Paul.Clements@SteelEye.com> said:

> One way to get around this problem is to use non-persistent superblocks
> for your arrays and just re-create them at bootup time by calling mkraid
> (or mdadm) after you've correctly identified (using WWID or similar)
> which devices belong to each particular raid set.

The patches I did to multipath in 2.4 went even further: As the md
superblock - this_disk etc - has little meaning for multipath, as they
are all identical, I made the assembly based entirely on the UUID,
ignoring the device nodes completely.


Sincerely,
    Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@suse.de>

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-06-12 10:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-11 14:09 Multipath problem in a SAN enviromnent Ionut Nistor
2003-06-11 15:49 ` Dominik Kubla
2003-06-11 16:47   ` Ionut Nistor
2003-06-11 16:27 ` Paul Clements
2003-06-11 16:42   ` Moving Disks [Re: Multipath problem in a SAN enviromnent] Gordon Henderson
2003-06-11 16:45   ` Multipath problem in a SAN enviromnent Ionut Nistor
2003-06-11 17:59     ` Paul Clements
2003-06-12  6:28       ` Ionut Nistor
2003-06-12 10:04   ` Lars Marowsky-Bree [this message]
2003-06-12 10:51     ` Ionut Nistor
2003-06-12 14:52       ` Paul Clements
2003-06-13  8:12         ` Ionut Nistor
2003-06-18 10:21           ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2003-06-19 15:25             ` Ionut Nistor
2003-06-11 19:24 ` Luca Berra
2003-06-12  6:35   ` Ionut Nistor
2003-06-11 19:34 ` Paul Clements
2003-06-12  6:37   ` Ionut Nistor

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