[dm-devel] multipath failover with 2x Emulex LP9802, setup, WWIDs

[Lars Marowsky-Bree]

On 2004-11-25T23:18:42, Andreas Huck <dm-devel at huck.it> wrote:

> > This should work mostly out of the box.
> yep, worked. But - grep is my friend - there is only a dmsetup command
> in the evms init script which I don't use, of course. At system startup I
> need to do the following:
>  
> fsrv1:~ # for i in `seq 1 3`; do dmsetup create lun$i dmtable.lun$i; done
> 
> Where is the usual place to put this? Or could multipathd care for this dmsetup? 

Actually yes. multipathd is supposed to discover them and create the
mappings correctly.

> > > Do I overlook something important here?
> > Yes. Try reading the documentation again ;-)
> Well, I may write some additions to fill the gaps I stumbled accross.

That would be great. Admittedly, documentation isn't the strongest
point.


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

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