[linux-lvm] LVM with multi-path disks?

Luca Berra bluca at comedia.it
Sat Aug 4 15:40:49 UTC 2001


On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 04:16:20PM -0700, John DeFranco wrote:
> Does LVM work with multi-path disks? For example I have
> a fibre channel configuration in which I have two paths
> to each disk. I pvcreate a disk and am able to use it
> within a vg but when I reboot and do a vgscan, lvm cannot
> find any vg's. If I remove the second path lvm can see
> the vg fine.

John, there is an addition for multi-path to the md driver
you can fetch it from the redhat source kernel rpm.
you can then stack lvm on top of md to achieve your goal

Regards,
Luca

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