Partitioning and LVM is optional, depends upon what you want to accomplish. Sometimes I make the file system directly on the multipathed device, as in mkfs /dev/mapper/mpatha Other than having more paths to the LUN it's no different then making a file system on an unpartitioned scsi device as in mkfs /dev/sda > -----Original Message----- > From: dm-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:dm-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] > On Behalf Of Scott Dungan > Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 7:52 PM > To: dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: FS directly on top of dm devices? > > We recently had an engineer from a large storage vendor suggest that we > make our file systems directly onto the multipathed devices without > first creating underlying partitions or using LVM. Having not run with > this method in production before, we would like to gather as much > information as possible first. Initial searches for documentation on > this method has produced few results, short of a Suse/Novell document > from 2005 under section 4: > > http://support.novell.com/techcenter/sdb/en/2005/04/sles_multipathing.h > tml > > Does anyone have any experience with this or can point us to more > documentation. thoughts or recommendations? > > Thanks, > > -- > > Scott A Dungan > > > -- > dm-devel mailing list > dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel This e-mail, including any attachments, may be confidential, privileged or otherwise legally protected. It is intended only for the addressee. If you received this e-mail in error or from someone who was not authorized to send it to you, do not disseminate, copy or otherwise use this e-mail or its attachments. Please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete the e-mail from your system. -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
