On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:55 PM, Krutibas Biswal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Robert Milkowski wrote: >> Originally you wanted to get it multipathed which was the case by >> default. Now you have disabled it (well, you still have to paths but >> no automatic failover). >> > Thanks. Can somebody point me to some documentation on this ? > I wanted to see 24 drives so that I can use load sharing between > two controllers (C1Disk1, C2Disk2, C1Disk3, C2Disk4...) for > performance.
You don't need to see the 24 drives. The multipathing drivers hides them to present a single drive despite both paths. The layer above (volume manager or ZFS in this case) uses this as a multipathed drive. > If I enable multipathing, would the drive do automatic load balancing > (sharing) between the two controllers ? Yes. that's exactly what multipathing does. -- Just me, Wire ... Blog: <prstat.blogspot.com> _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
