[dm-devel] Question about Multibus+Failover
Christophe Varoqui
christophe.varoqui at free.fr
Tue Dec 6 21:15:11 UTC 2005
On mar, 2005-12-06 at 15:37 -0500, Josef Whiter wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've had several requests about loadbalancing coupled with failover for
> dm multipathing. I know with failover you get just failover, and
> multibus you get just load balancing, but I was wondering if there was a
> hybrid option for load balancing that would handle a failed path
> gracefully. Thanks much,
>
Failed paths are handled quite gracefully in all grouping policies.
That said, other stock grouping policies are at your disposal :
group_by_serial or group_by_node_name or the special group_by_prio that
let you do your own grouping policy with callouts (shell scripts or
whatever).
Please have a look at the documentation available.
Regards,
cvaroqui
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