Re: Enabling failover (multipath) support in qla2300 driver

[Brian Long <brilong cisco com>]

On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 21:41 -0500, Tom Sightler wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 16:36 -0500, Vincent Aniello wrote:
> > How do I enable failover (multipath) support for the qla2300 driver in
> > RedHat Enterprise 4.0?
> > 
> > In RedHat 3.0 I added "ql2xfailover=1" to /etc/modprobe.conf, but that
> > doesn't seem to work in 4.0.
> 
> Vincent,
> 
> The Qlogic driver included in RHEL4 does not have failover support.  It
> was removed in the official 2.6 version of the driver because it's not
> considered the "One True Way" for multipathing under Linux.

I believe RHEL 4 was released as-is to keep on schedule even though
everything wasn't ready.  I understand Update 1 and Update 2 will
include significant feature additions, meaning another test cycle as if
it was a new OS.  :(

/Brian/
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