Hannes, I'm confused that SLES 9 added a parameter, multipath=, to switch "off multipathing in the initrd, ie for the root fs"
but Novell says specifically for SLES 9 that "Currently, DM MPIO is not available for either the root or the boot partition, as the boot loader does not know how to handle MPIO." (see http://support.novell.com/techcenter/sdb/en/2005/04/sles_multipathing.html ) Puzzles me since my experience is coding the multipath= kernel parm on SLES 9 zSeries doesn't suppress, enable, or affect multipathing with multipath-tools. Can you be more detailed about the intent of the multipath= parm? Or point me to some documentation that explains use of this new feature? danke -------------------------------------------------------- This e-mail, including any attachments, may be confidential, privileged or otherwise legally protected. It is intended only for the addressee. If you received this e-mail in error or from someone who was not authorized to send it to you, do not disseminate, copy or otherwise use this e-mail or its attachments. Please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete the e-mail from your system. -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hannes Reinecke Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 2:37 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: SLES9 scsi multipath initrd-linuxrc question Richard Troth wrote: > I'm finding that multipath support in Linux sits above the SCSI layer, and > therefore also above the zFCP layer. Thought I caught a hint of zSeries > specific configuration in the use of the "multipath=" parm. But > experience is showing it to NOT be platform specific. > Well; no. The multipath= parameter is for switching off multipathing in the initrd, ie for the root fs. And as you already pointed out it's platform agnostic. Why did you think it's somewhat platform dependent? Cheers, Hannes -- Dr. Hannes Reinecke [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH S390 & zSeries Maxfeldstraße 5 +49 911 74053 688 90409 Nürnberg http://www.suse.de ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
