All multipath (which I love by the way) means is "here are two (or more) ways to get 
to the same disk".  

The fact that multipath support under Linux grew out of the RAID support is what's 
throwing you.  It's configured by editing /etc/raidtab, and using commands whose 
prefix is "raid".  That's it.

-----Original Message-----
From: Iain Campbell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 10:48
To: Christian, Chip
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Multipath?


On Tuesday 19 June 2001 10:23, Christian, Chip wrote:
> Multipath isn't RAID.


Ummmm, then what is it? It appears as a raid-level in one of the sample
raid config files distributed with raidtools 0.90, specifically 
/usr/share/doc/raidtools-0.90/multipath.conf.sample which looks like this:

# Sample raid-1 configuration
raiddev                 /dev/md0
raid-level              multipath
nr-raid-disks           2
nr-spare-disks          0
chunk-size              4
 
device                  /dev/hda1
raid-disk               0
 
device                  /dev/hdb1
raid-disk               1

is multipath isn't RAID is it just another way of saying linear?

iain

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> Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 0:57
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> Subject: Multipath?
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> Fellow RAIDers:
>
> What raid level is multipath anyway??
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