Re: QLogic Linux failover/Load Balancing ER0000000020860

From: Austin Gonyou (austin@coremetrics.com)
Date: Mon Oct 07 2002 - 11:32:39 EST


On Sun, 2002-10-06 at 02:58, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
> On 2002-10-05T19:09:26,
> Austin Gonyou <austin@coremetrics.com> said:
>
> > Is there a way to resolve this, either at the driver level, IMHO the
> > place it *should* happen. At the storage level, the place that it could
> > also happen, or in the Kernel?
>
> You can always use md multipathing; an extension to the 2.4 multipathing has
> been implemented by Jens Axboe and yours truely and is available at
> http://lars.marowsky-bree.de/dl/md-mp; we'll see how Neil takes it when he
> returns from vacation ;-)
>
> We'll also be shipping that patch as part of United Linux.

Is this for 2.4 or 2.5. Just FMI.

> IBM also did an extension to the LVM1 code to support multipathing; I don't
> have an URL handy right now, but Google will certainly help out.
>
> For 2.5, this is still not fully hashed out, but I assume you are running 2.4
> on a production system ;-)
>
>
> Sincerely,
> Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@suse.de>

-- 
Austin Gonyou <austin@coremetrics.com>
Coremetrics, Inc.


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