[dm-devel] rdac mode on SLES10SP1

[Kirill Cherkashin <kcherkashin amadeus com>]

Hello,


Could you advise me on next matter.
We have DS4800 connected to SLES10&9. At the moment
we're using 'native' IBM  rdac driver but we're going to soon jump
to Linux mpio.
According to Novell's support site in SP1(with kernel
2.6.16)  MPIO would be supported by in rdac mode. 

patches.fixes/dm-mpath-rdac.patch: dm-multipath hardware
handler for LSI/Engenio RDAC (FATE 300540).

http://www.novell.com/support/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=http--supportnovellcom-techcenter-sdb-en-2005-04-slesmultipathinghtml&sliceId=&dialogID=43714828&stateId=1%200%203744908

However, here I found  that it should happened only
with 2.6.23 kernel.

http://marc.info/?l=dm-devel&m=118729146220962&w=2

If you are using it in rdac mode, then
you have to wait.
> Any idea when that should be? Or
are there any kernel patches 
Usually they are released within 2-3 months
of the last release. 2.6.22
was released on Jul 8th. So, it should
be somewhere between Sep 8th and
Oct 8th 

Could someone clarify the situation. Support  SLES10SP1
already rdac mode or I should wait until SUSE new release ?

Regards,

Kirill  



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