Sorry for the delayed response. The hardware appears to be supported by the kernel. The HBA driver loads and a bunch of devices are detected (1 sd device represents one path to th storage system). There are so many in fact that the devices go from 3 characters to 4 (for example, sda to sdz and then from sdaa to sdzz). Clonezilla does not appear to support 4 character device names. Unfortunately, the multipath driver does not load, thus multiple sd devices are not mapped through device mapper (for example, sda+sdb+sdc+sdd are mapped to mpath0). I was testing with 1.2.8.23, but I will try again with the latest version.
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Is it possible to add multipath support to Clonezilla?
What did you mean by multipath?
Steven.
Multipath I/O. Here is a slightly old, but very informative paper on multipath I/O in linux: http://www.kernel.org/doc/ols/2005/ols2005v1-pages-155-176.pdf
This feature would be extremely useful when trying to clone/restore SANboot disks.
So if this kernel related, I believe if the hardware is supported by the kernel, yes, it does.
Steven.
Sorry for the delayed response. The hardware appears to be supported by the kernel. The HBA driver loads and a bunch of devices are detected (1 sd device represents one path to th storage system). There are so many in fact that the devices go from 3 characters to 4 (for example, sda to sdz and then from sdaa to sdzz). Clonezilla does not appear to support 4 character device names. Unfortunately, the multipath driver does not load, thus multiple sd devices are not mapped through device mapper (for example, sda+sdb+sdc+sdd are mapped to mpath0). I was testing with 1.2.8.23, but I will try again with the latest version.
Yes, so far the Clonezilla only detects the device name like sda, hda, vda… In the future we will try to have more general names.
Steven.