Hi,

   We use EVMS on SLES9X to handle our scsi multipathing needs.  We pretty much
use the procedure documented in SG24-6344 Linux for zSeries: Fibre Channel
Protocol Implementation Guide, page 192-234.  We have 4 paths defined for each
LUN.  We had a failure on our SAN Volume Controller this weekend that caused
EVMS to lose 2 disks (child objects).  These 2 disks represent 2 of 4 paths to
the same LUN.  EVMS complains that the disk count in the "region" is wrong (ok,
we lost 2 disks), but it won't continue without the missing disks (even though
these disks were defined in EVMS as being redundant paths to the same LUN).

   It seems odd that EVMS would work this way.  Would anyone know how to "fool"
EVMS into working with missing child objects?  Shouldn't EVMS handle path
failures?

   Novell tells me that multipathing with EVMS is not a supported
configuration.  I thought it was supported for non-root volumes.

Sigh,
Arty

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