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1.\" Copyright (c) 2007 Matthew Jacob
2.\" All rights reserved.
3.\"
4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
6.\" are met:
7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

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18.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS
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25.\" $FreeBSD: head/sbin/geom/class/multipath/gmultipath.8 176932 2008-03-08 12:13:00Z brueffer $
25.\" $FreeBSD: head/sbin/geom/class/multipath/gmultipath.8 177150 2008-03-13 15:37:02Z brueffer $
26.\"
27.Dd February 26, 2007
28.Dt GMULTIPATH 8
29.Os
30.Sh NAME
31.Nm gmultipath
32.Nd "disk multipath control utility"
33.Sh SYNOPSIS

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208Now that you have used the Serial Number to compare two disk paths
209it is not entirely unreasonable to conclude that these are multiple
210paths to the same device.
211However, only the user who is familiar
212with their storage is qualified to make this judgement.
213.Pp
214You can then use the
215.Nm
26.\"
27.Dd February 26, 2007
28.Dt GMULTIPATH 8
29.Os
30.Sh NAME
31.Nm gmultipath
32.Nd "disk multipath control utility"
33.Sh SYNOPSIS

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208Now that you have used the Serial Number to compare two disk paths
209it is not entirely unreasonable to conclude that these are multiple
210paths to the same device.
211However, only the user who is familiar
212with their storage is qualified to make this judgement.
213.Pp
214You can then use the
215.Nm
216command to label and create the
216command to label and create a
217.Nm MULTIPATH
217.Nm MULTIPATH
218GEOM class named
219.Ar Fred .
218GEOM provider named
219.Ar FRED .
220.Bd -literal -offset indent
220.Bd -literal -offset indent
221gmultipath label -v Fred /dev/da0 /dev/da2
222disklabel -Brw /dev/multipath/Fred auto
223newfs /dev/multipath/Freda
224mount /dev/multipath/Freda /mnt....
221gmultipath label -v FRED /dev/da0 /dev/da2
222disklabel -Brw /dev/multipath/FRED auto
223newfs /dev/multipath/FREDa
224mount /dev/multipath/FREDa /mnt....
225.Ed
226.Pp
227The resultant console output looks something like:
228.Bd -literal -offset indent
229GEOM_MULTIPATH: adding da0 to Fred/b631385f-c61c-11db-b884-0011116ae789
230GEOM_MULTIPATH: da0 now active path in Fred
231GEOM_MULTIPATH: adding da2 to Fred/b631385f-c61c-11db-b884-0011116ae789
232.Ed

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225.Ed
226.Pp
227The resultant console output looks something like:
228.Bd -literal -offset indent
229GEOM_MULTIPATH: adding da0 to Fred/b631385f-c61c-11db-b884-0011116ae789
230GEOM_MULTIPATH: da0 now active path in Fred
231GEOM_MULTIPATH: adding da2 to Fred/b631385f-c61c-11db-b884-0011116ae789
232.Ed

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