On 28 Apr 2005, at 19:53, goggin, edward wrote:
On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 21:38:34 +0100, Arthur Bergman wrote:
All the path have the same serial, but the show up from different
nodes.
Not sure what this means. The group-by-node-name policy implies
assigning
paths with similar node name attribute to the same group. For SCSI,
seems
like the multipath configurator assigns the node name attribute to be
the
combination of SCSI initiator and target addresses (in linux, host
no/channel no/target id). This should be different for every path
which
would cause each path to be assigned to a different path group.
How is the resultant path grouping any different than if you used the
failover
path grouping policy instead?
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Huh, as far as I understand it group_by_nodename uses the
/sys/class/fc_transport/target0:0:0/node_name information
from our setup, there are 8 paths to two controllers, there is no
failover cost but it defeats read caching pretty beadly to use both
controllers..
/sys/class/fc_transport/target0:0:0/node_name:0x50050768010003d5
/sys/class/fc_transport/target0:0:1/node_name:0x5005076801000361
/sys/class/fc_transport/target0:0:2/node_name:0x50050768010003d5
/sys/class/fc_transport/target0:0:3/node_name:0x5005076801000361
/sys/class/fc_transport/target1:0:0/node_name:0x5005076801000361
/sys/class/fc_transport/target1:0:1/node_name:0x5005076801000361
/sys/class/fc_transport/target1:0:2/node_name:0x50050768010003d5
/sys/class/fc_transport/target1:0:3/node_name:0x50050768010003d5
So all path that ends at a matching node_name, even if they are on
different transport targets get one path.
Cheers
Arthur
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