On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 11:39:32AM +0200, Andreas G. Schindler wrote: > A Question to the LVM Guy(s): > > We would like to use Linux LVM to overcome the fact, Linux doesn't > currently support Dual-Path access to SAN (Fibre-Channel) units. > > Rumors are, LVM is able to detect multiple paths to a PV (in my case > a SAN SCSI LUN) and will rearrange it to one single PV. Correct. > > As far as i see, this should solve the problem during regular operation > (i.e. both paths to the SAN active). But what about the really interesting > case of failure on one link? If this is the currently 'active' link (that > one, still in t LVM's PV list), we need a failover and rearrangement > of the PV list on the fly. > > Does this work ?? Not so far. We want to have multipathing with failover support in LVM2 this year. > > Many thanks in advance > > Regards, Andreas > > -- > > Dr. Andreas G. Schindler c/o Alpha Zero One Computersysteme GmbH > schindler@az1.de Frankfurter Str. 141, D-63303 Dreieich > Tel +49 6103 57187 21 Germany > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html -- Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Sistina Software Inc. Senior Consultant/Developer Am Sonnenhang 11 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@Sistina.com +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html
