[zfs-discuss] Eliminating double path with ZFS's volume manager

2007-01-15 Thread Philip Mötteli
Hi, Since they have installed a second path to our Hitachi SAN, my Mac OS X Server 4.8 mounts every SAN disk twice. I asked everywhere, if there's a way, to correct that. And the only answer so far was, that I need a volume manager, that can be configured to consider two volumes as being

[zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Eliminating double path with ZFS's volumemanager

2007-01-15 Thread Philip Mötteli
Go poke around in the multipath Xsan storage pool properties. Specifies how Xsan uses multiple Fibre Channel paths between clients and storage. This is the equiv of Veritas DMP or [whatever we now call] Solaris MPxIO You mean, I should find some configuration file? Well, I can't find one.

[zfs-discuss] Re: Eliminating double path with ZFS's volume manager

2007-01-15 Thread Philip Mötteli
Robert Milkowski wrote: 2. I belive it's definitely possible to just correct your config under Mac OS without any need to use other fs or volume manager, however going to zfs could be a good idea anyway That implies that MacOS has some sort of native SCSI multipathing like

[zfs-discuss] Re: Eliminating double path with ZFS's volume manager

2007-01-15 Thread Philip Mötteli
Looks like its got a half-way decent multipath design: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Xsan/1.1/ en/c3xs12.html Great, but that is with Xsan. If I don't exchange our Hitachi with an Xsan, I don't have this 'cvadmin'. This message posted from opensolaris.org