- About This Guide
- I File Systems and Mounting
- II Logical Volumes (LVM)
- III Software RAID
- IV Network Storage
- 12 iSNS for Linux
- 13 Mass Storage over IP Networks: iSCSI
- 14 Fibre Channel Storage over Ethernet Networks: FCoE
- 15 Managing Multipath I/O for Devices
- 15.1 Understanding Multipath I/O
- 15.2 Hardware Support
- 15.3 Planning for Multipathing
- 15.4 Multipath Management Tools
- 15.5 Configuring the System for Multipathing
- 15.6 Creating or Modifying the /etc/multipath.conf File
- 15.7 Configuring Default Policies for Polling, Queuing, and Failback
- 15.8 Blacklisting Non-Multipath Devices
- 15.9 Configuring User-Friendly Names or Alias Names
- 15.10 Configuring Path Failover Policies and Priorities
- 15.11 Configuring Multipath I/O for the Root Device
- 15.12 Using LVM2 on Multipath Devices
- 15.13 Configuring Multipath I/O for an Existing Software RAID
- 15.14 Best Practice
- 15.15 Troubleshooting MPIO
- 16 Managing Access Control Lists over NFSv4
- V Troubleshooting
- A Documentation Updates
- B GNU Licenses
- 1.1 File System Types in Linux
- 1.2 Maximum Sizes of Files and File Systems (On-Disk Format, 4 KiB Block Size)
- 1.3 Storage Limitations
- 2.1 File System Support for Resizing
- 4.1 LVM Commands
- 6.1 Comparison of RAID 5 and RAID 6
- 8.1 Nested RAID Levels
- 8.2 Scenario for Creating a RAID 10 (1+0) by Nesting
- 8.3 Scenario for Creating a RAID 10 (0+1) by Nesting
- 8.4 Complex vs. Nested RAID 10
- 8.5 Scenario for Creating a RAID 10 Using mdadm
- 10.1 Tasks Involved in Resizing a RAID
- 10.2 Scenario for Increasing the Size of Component Partitions
- 11.1 Translation between Non-SES-2 Patterns and SES-2 Patterns
- 15.1 Multipath I/O Features of Storage Arrays
- 15.2 Tools in the multipath-tools Package
- 15.3 Group Policy Options for the multipath -p Command
- 15.4 Comparison of Multipath Device Name Types
- 15.5 Group Policy Options for the multipath -p Command
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