March 20, 2008 (SLES 10 SP2)

Updates were made to the following section. The changes are explained below.

Managing Multipath I/O

The following changes were made to this section:

Location

Change

Section 5.2.7, “Supported Architectures for Multipath I/O”

This section is new.

Section 5.2.8, “Supported Storage Arrays for Multipathing”

This section was reorganized for clarity.

Section 5.4.5, “Creating and Configuring the /etc/multipath.conf File”

The /etc/multipath.conf file does not exist unless you create it.

Section 5.6, “Configuring Path Failover Policies and Priorities”

This section is new.

Section 5.8, “Configuring Multipath I/O for the Root Device”

DM-MP is now available and supported for /boot and /root in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1 and later if all online updates have been applied. More specifically, you need mkinitrd 1.2-106.61 and multipath-tools 0.4.7-34.23 or later.


SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server Storage Administration Guide 10 SP3