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From: Luca Berra <bluca@comedia.it>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SuSE Linux cluster using MC/ServiceGuard --- shared storage
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 08:34:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040921063411.GA23543@percy.comedia.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040920183318.GP3592@marowsky-bree.de>

On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 08:33:18PM +0200, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
>On 2004-09-20T15:55:51,
>   Luca Berra <bluca@comedia.it> said:
>
>> >Do I still need to use the Driver Patch for EVA
>> >Controller Failover? 
>> i believe using the qlogic driver failover is a viable solutio,
>
>The DM multipath in 2.6 should handle the EVA just fine.

you mean multipath-tools (http://christophe.varoqui.free.fr/multipath.html)?
i suppose so, using the "group_by_tur" spreading policy. fortunately i
don't have any spare EVA to test, plenty of XP tough :)

>The qlogic internal failover is being depreciated and AFAIK isn't
>included in 2.6 mainline even...

excuse me, are you shipping (or at least supporting) a 2.6 kernel on
your SLES 8.0 product?

>> another is purchasing securepath from HP. but i believe there were
>> issues using securepath and lvm together.
>
>Proprietary multipathing solutions are a thing of the past on Linux, one
>hopes.
i hope so, but for this statement to become true we need some other
vendor to ship a 2.6 based 'enterprise level' distribution with proper
device-mapper implementation, and application vendors (that includes
HP and IBM) to adapt.
Anyway, i do not really believe securepath to be a viable solution(*), i
was enumerating possibilities.

(*) and hp suggests using qlogic 7.00.3 driver with internal failover
for use with their Serviceguard product.

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-21  6:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-20 13:28 SuSE Linux cluster using MC/ServiceGuard --- shared storage Biju A
2004-09-20 13:55 ` Luca Berra
2004-09-20 18:33   ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2004-09-21  6:34     ` Luca Berra [this message]
2004-09-21 15:32       ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-09-21 13:40 Stern, Rick (Serviceguard Linux)
2004-09-21 15:33 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree

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