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From: Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de>
To: martin.lonkwitz.sp@lhsystems.com, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Question about MD multipathing
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 14:30:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050804123013.GE11081@marowsky-bree.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <38295A62BCF9744C9C0D5AD9FB7747C8D796B4@XW2K3-FRAMBX-06.ads.dlh.de>

On 2005-08-03T14:14:56, martin.lonkwitz.sp@lhsystems.com wrote:

> Cause I have problems with active/passiv storage (storagetek D240) while
> Lun's jump to the passiv controller of the storage cause of traffic
> comes to this one :/
> Dones anyone can suggest another solution for active/passive storage
> that works with linux kernel 2.4 and 2.6 ?

You should use DM multipath. md multipath isn't going to perform well
for you in 2.4 (unless you're using the SLES8 kernel, which is hacked up
quite a bit).

With 2.6, Device-Mapper has been choosen for the multipath IO to be
implemented in.



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

-- 
High Availability & Clustering
SUSE Labs, Research and Development
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - A Novell Business	 -- Charles Darwin
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge"


  reply	other threads:[~2005-08-04 12:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-03 12:14 Question about MD multipathing martin.lonkwitz.sp
2005-08-04 12:30 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree [this message]
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2005-08-04 12:46 martin.lonkwitz.sp
2005-08-04 12:51 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree

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