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

[Ragnar Kjørstad]

On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 10:01:36AM -0700, John DeFranco wrote:
> Ragnar Kjørstad wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 08:25:58PM +0200, Luca Berra wrote:
> > > in *redhat* kernels there is a patch that adds multipath support
> > > to the md driver, you configure it as a raid-1 array, but it is
> > > actually a multipath configuration.
> > 
> > If I remember correctly, you configure as "multipath" not "raid1".
> 
> Do you know where the above is defined? I cannot find
> anything in the raid documentation that talks about 
> multipath?

You need to use the RH kernel to get the "multipath" option.
Unfortenately the md patch (from their source RPM) does not apply
cleanly to a standard kernel, and it didn't look trivial to fix :(



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Ragnar Kjorstad
Big Storage