[dm-devel] failover does not work with rdac device handler

Chandra Seetharaman sekharan at us.ibm.com
Fri Jun 26 17:42:51 UTC 2009


On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 11:24 +0200, Mario Mech wrote:
> Chandra Seetharaman schrieb:
> > On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 18:09 +0200, Mario Mech wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I need help with a similar or even the same issue as in the thread mentioned in the Subject 
> >> (https://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2008-October/msg00130.html).
> > 
> > My bad. I had some issues during debug and never got back to it.
> > 
> > Will send couple of patches by tomorrow to fix this problem.
> >  
> 
> That sounds great.
> 
> >> At the moment I'd like to avoid building the multipath package by myself with the patch provided in the afore mentioned thread.
> > 
> > The changes are in kernel code.
> >> Do you have any ideas? Or is a different problem I have.
> > 
> > It is the same problem and I am afraid that you do not have a way out.
> > 
> > May be next version of RHEL might add your device to rdac_dev_list (if
> > you could do that that would fix the problem).
> > 
> 
> I assume it's only building new kernel modules for my running 2.6.18-128.1.14.el5. That shouldn't be a big deal.

Yes. MD3000i is already in mainline code, you can just cut-n-paste that
entry for rdac_dev_list, compile the module and you are good to do.

chandra
> 
> >> Every help is appreciated.
> >>
> >> All best
> >>
> >> Mario
> >>
> > 
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