From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Clements Subject: Re: Multipath problem in a SAN enviromnent Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 15:34:48 -0400 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3EE78458.4411C4B5@SteelEye.com> References: <02d201c33023$13fd45a0$3351960a@EEL> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: To: Ionut Nistor Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids 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