-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Thanks Dave But wouldn't the same thing that prevents xfs_repair also prevent dm-multipath from using the device? Or would you typically setup a partitioning or volume scheme on top of dm-multipath? Martin > No. Use dm-multipath to make them appear as a single block device > made up as a pair of redundant paths in primary/secondary failover > or active/active load balancing configurations. dm-multipath > handles failover between the two block devices on path failure > transparently. > > XFS | dm-mp-0 / \ sdc sdd > > The mounted filesystem doesn't even know there are multiple paths > in this configuration, however the XFS UUID trapping behaviour > avoids this problem by preventing you from doing XFS operations > directly on /dev/sdc or /dev/sdd while the filesystem is mount on > /dev/dm-mp-0.... > > Cheers. > > Dave. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJTkQ+yAAoJELsEaSRwbVYrJB4QAIyjUk7un+bth/5WnW/imwoh CGlkS7kuU8Iu96VqwoojOZtY6RcUX5Yq+NoW7NDigFv0iEkaM2j0wg8JoNw6EFqX uiJuCkBUI3/v8QkFU0GtA4/6NFsu9N709f8J0ilof20L0bNm2wh7SiXqrp28X3HS 8Y1G50PXbBnEM5yKbmXLpVTOhEw35NlaPKBYZ5gBFohPXDb4+J6+g0kJD5wZPSWK lsHyW8tuuntGIZTtGZ4sHvak5THCXILClmFcPrdzzU110c601RTzJfeq9L7QXTMI thrUH3KGvT2s4vTwqLLFHdBZNwEXi2X0PaiM7uO0/AYvaaoDfwnLh0lJmSSxRFZn YYFa6Ko20l4nxFZoy6eRUh8vxvOat4VOlYowlyEcnPTE1nSeJfulun94ztjNXs2k 5VtWlFh12CXSVrynXBVnYKvFOAdecZcztqxjAjjTcjIrWHbZv0UXFtflG1V+zjgD 63SqxwShL2C/685gFXHh7mY0K2vAbnBK+IrRSTWMKVMZ16OuuIFA2WZebnskDfAf vWWFv8mAEAUP/xYF7u4g4XVov2aQAVxjDosXxuqUbW8QHlTXNB/wc7akXgoD3fmZ u0cB5Paw9JJeGt5eKYbtReL+Wt3STKtYGu2yNOZo/oiUr0uuoAkcjSfUGqrdu6HL kQgRYDDjQt37JPVIyyNK =55eH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
