Re: [dm-devel] Question about Multibus+Failover

[Christophe Varoqui <christophe varoqui free fr>]

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