From: Carsten Otte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> The kernel of current Linux-Distributions does not support muliple
> pathes to a dasd device at all. A workaround is to spread the data
> over multiple devices using LVM or MD in striping mode. Using the same
> amount of devices like the amount of pathes available (or a multiple
> of it) should fit best. This problem is already addressed in the
> current (experimental) 2.4.17 code.

Carsten: Is this still true when the Linux volume is on a VM minidisk?
While the I/O architecture allows an operating system to use only one
of the available paths, I thought that on a VM minidisk, VM managed the
I/O and would ignore the path mask setting the guest set?

Regards, Jim

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