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

[Ragnar Kjørstad]

On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 11:06:07AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 02:28:01AM +0200, Ragnar Kjørstad wrote:
> > E.g. you have a md0 device consisting of sda and sdb - would not lvm
> > find three different paths to the same data (sda, sdb, md0) when
> > scanning for physical volumes? Will that not cause problems?
> 
> vgscan skips devices that are identified as md devices, so you will
> not see sda and sdb but just md0.  Multipath is not different from
> 'normal' RAID in this respect.

Hmm, I didn't think md devices needed superblocks thus could not be
identified?


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Ragnar Kjorstad
Big Storage