[dm-devel] Device Mapper MultiPath
Andy
genanr at emsphone.com
Thu Apr 2 19:09:56 UTC 2009
On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 04:31:08PM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 03:08:41PM -0500, Andy wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 08:25:59PM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek wrote:
> > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 09:07:08PM -0300, Rodrigo Nascimento wrote:
> > > > Hi All,
> > > >
> > > > I'm a student of computer sciences and I'd like to collaborate with the
> > > > development of the DM-MP.
> > > > I know that maybe you received this kind of message during all time, but I
> > >
> > > I think you are the first :-)
> > >
> > > > really want to help, with anything.
> > >
> > > Shakedown help would be nice. As in, trying to yank stuff underneath it,
> > > add new block disks, remove them, add them, remove them, edit the
> > > multipath.conf file and issue 'reconfigure', resize the maps,
> > > then add 1000+LUNs, and while they are being added, start removing the
> > > LUNs, then for extra fun call 'dmsetup remove_all' while in another
> > > thread you run 'multipath'. Ooh, and see if there are any memory leaks
> > > while this all is being done.
> > >
> >
> > What I would really like to see is online resizing of non-partitioned dm
> > block devices. I would love to be able to resize an underlying dm-mp block
> > device, and the just grow the filesystem without using a extra, un-needed,
>
> Benjamin posted a CVS patch of this, that I've forward-ported to work with
> the latest git. It is attached.
>
>
Thanks, I must have missed that post. Unfortantly, I am having problems with
multipathd in the latest git. It fails all my paths and hangs. It I go
into the interactive mode, it even hangs just asking for help. The
multipath program itself shows the paths without a problem.
Andy
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