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linuxmultipath多路径配置(国外英语资料) First, what is multipath? An ordinary computer host is a hard disk attached to a bus. This is a one to one relationship. The fiber composition of the SAN environment, or composed by iSCSI IPSAN, the host and storage through the optical switches or multiple network adapters and IP to connect, it constitutes a many to many relationship. That is, the host to store can have multiple paths to choose from. The IO between the host and the storage can be selected by multiple paths. Each host to the corresponding storage can go through several different paths, and if it is used at the same time, how is the I/O traffic allocated? One of the paths is broken. How do you deal with it? And in the operating system point of view, each path, the operating system will be considered a real physical disk, but in fact only leads to the different paths of the same physical disk. This is when in use, will give users confused. Multi path software is to solve the above problems arises at the historic moment. The main function of multipath is to work with storage devices to achieve the following functions: 1. handover and recovery of faults Load balancing for 2.IO traffic 3. disk virtualization Since multipath software is needed and stored together, different vendors offer different versions based on different operating systems. And some vendors, software and hardware are not sold together, and if you want to use multi path software, you may also need to buy license vendors. For example, EMC company based on Linux multipath software, you need to buy license separately. Fortunately, RedHat and Suse 2.6 kernel is equipped with multi path free software package, and can be free to use, but also a more generic package, can support most of the storage equipment manufacturers, not even some famous manufacturers, through a configuration file to modify, but also can support and run very good. Two, Linux introduction under multipath, the following tools need: In Redhat 5, c