not sure if anyone else has updated this thread since it was posted; We ran into issue of delayed path failover (when one path dies/disabled, all IO hang for 30sec-2 min); it wasn't that optimal to have that time IO totally freezed; We were using redhat 5.4 and also tried oracle enterprise kernel; Would be great to hear more inputs; Thx On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 7:08 PM, Luca Canali <Luca.Canali@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > Is anybody who has used device mapper for Linux willing to share their > experience? > > I have been using Qlogic multipathing so far with the qla2300_conf > module on RHEL3. No problem with it, but I am moving to RHEL4 and the > needed qla2xxx_conf module is missing from their rmps distribution. So > instead I have done a few tests with device mapper multipathing, seems > to work fine so far, but nothing can beat real world experience. > > Thanks, > L. > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- Regards Zhu Chao