Re: md on shared storage

["Brian Jackson" <brian-kernel-list@mdrx.com>]

I am testing OpenGFS on this hardware(it is on loan from OSDL), I could 
probably do some testing for you if you have some specifics you want to try. 
I am having trouble with the volume management portion of OpenGFS also(but I 
don't necessarily think they are related). 

 --Brian Jackson 


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> 
> I'm interested in finding what magic is required to get a stable
> setup with qlogic drivers and LVM. I have tested many kernel combinations,
> vendor kernels, stock, -aa and variety of different qlogic drivers
> inclusing the one with the alleged stack hog fixes and they all ooops
> when using LVM (can take up to 10 days of production load). Removing
> LVM 45 days ago and now I have 45 days uptime on these boxes. 
> 
> I'm currently building a test setup to try and excercise this problem
> as all my other boxes with qlogic cards are production and can't be
> played with. I really miss having volume management and a SAN setup
> is really where you need it the most. 
> 
> ~mc 
>