Hello Lars, Are these changes documented? Is there a changelog? In which official kernel has the patch been merged? Is there a separate patch I can apply to 2.4.18 vanilla? Thanks a lot, Ionut ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lars Marowsky-Bree" <lmb@suse.de> To: "Paul Clements" <Paul.Clements@SteelEye.com>; "Ionut Nistor" <ionut@modulo.ro> Cc: <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 1:04 PM Subject: Re: Multipath problem in a SAN enviromnent > On 2003-06-11T12:27:10, > Paul Clements <Paul.Clements@SteelEye.com> said: > > > One way to get around this problem is to use non-persistent superblocks > > for your arrays and just re-create them at bootup time by calling mkraid > > (or mdadm) after you've correctly identified (using WWID or similar) > > which devices belong to each particular raid set. > > The patches I did to multipath in 2.4 went even further: As the md > superblock - this_disk etc - has little meaning for multipath, as they > are all identical, I made the assembly based entirely on the UUID, > ignoring the device nodes completely. > > > Sincerely, > Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@suse.de> > > -- > SuSE Labs - Research & Development, SuSE Linux AG > > "If anything can go wrong, it will." "Chance favors the prepared (mind)." > -- Capt. Edward A. Murphy -- Louis Pasteur > - 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
