On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Vanco Backup <[email protected]> wrote: > I remain confused in re: multipath and the DS4800......... > > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Scott Dodson <[email protected]> wrote: >> Troels Arvin wrote: >>>> >>>> Red Hat is pleased to announce the availability of 5.3 >>> >>> [...] >>> >>>> From http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/ >>> >>> Release_Notes/sect-Release_Notes-Driver_Updates.html : >>> >>> " >>> - dm-multipath now has inbox support for IBM DS4000. >>> " >>> >>> Does someone know what "inbox support" means? And does someone know if >>> this includes DS4800? >>> >> >> dm-multipath now contains additional default device settings so you should >> no longer have to tweak /etc/multipath.conf > > Meaning that I no longer have to make specific entries for the DS4800 > under the "devices" section? > > >> See http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2009-0232.html for more details. > > I have, and this has literally no "details". I'm not clear what it > means by "default configurations were added for..." - does this mean > the required config data is buried in the kernel / driver bits? > > Just trying to find out some CURRENT info on multipath and the IBM > DS4000 class storage, it still looks to me like I need to edit > multipath.conf, and I still need to install RDAC and use its > "subdevices" in the conf file. And it that's the case, I don't > believe I can run RHEL5U3 because the latest RDAC is ancient (as > always) > > I am really hoping that RDAC is no longer required...... >
BTW - basing some of my comments on the information here: http://sources.redhat.com/lvm2/wiki/MultipathUsageGuide ...again, it seems contradictory. There is a section that talks about RHEL 5U3 and the "hardware handler" from the RDAC driver, but again, the RDAC driver only supports 5U2 _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
