[linux-lvm] question on lvm

Luca Berra bluca at comedia.it
Thu Apr 18 06:01:01 UTC 2002


On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 03:17:15AM -0700, Pascal Hubacher wrote:
> i would like to know if lvm can handle multiple paths to one disk (like dmp
> in veritas volume manager) and if yes if it does a loadbalancing on the
> paths? 
> 
not atm, but Stefan Bader <Stefan.Bader at de.ibm.com>
posted a patch on this list to enable this functionality
as an alternative you can use md multipath under lvm
i posted a patch to the linux-raid mailing-list to
enable loadbalancing on md multipath *this patch is
still untested*

L.

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