Hi, What do you mean by autodetection? Ionut ----- Original Message ----- From: "Luca Berra" <bluca@comedia.it> To: "Ionut Nistor" <ionut@modulo.ro> Cc: <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org> Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 10:24 PM Subject: Re: Multipath problem in a SAN enviromnent > Ionut Nistor wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm using a 2.4.18-ac3 kernel and the multipath module in order to ensure > > automatic IO path failover. The systems connect to a FC SAN environment. > > New logical disks are added/removed from the SAN periodically. > > > > Unfortunatelly, linux's raid subsystem uses major and minor numbers in the > > superblock in order to identify members for all raid types - including > > multipath. This causes the multipath module to fail when attempting to > > identify the members. When the scsi driver is loaded, the bus is scanned and > > all the available devices/targets/luns are added to the scsi subsystem and > > are allocated a major and minor number. > > > you mean autodetection fails? don't use autodetection. > > regards, > Luca. > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
