From owner-freebsd-current Fri Mar 31 2:53:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from morpheus.skynet.be (morpheus.skynet.be [195.238.2.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E997437BBE0 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 02:53:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from blk@skynet.be) Received: from [195.238.1.121] (brad.techos.skynet.be [195.238.1.121]) by morpheus.skynet.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2644EDBDF; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 12:53:06 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: blk@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 12:26:31 +0200 To: Carl Makin From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: Dual Pathing to SCSI/FC devices. Cc: mjacob@feral.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 10:41 AM +1000 2000/3/31, Carl Makin wrote: > heh, the buzzword for this is "Dynamic Failover". :) In management > circles where the current focus is on 24x7, this is seen as a distinct > advantage. Okay, then I'd certainly like to have that. > "Dual Pathing" the buzzword for using both paths to the device would also > be desirable, but then you get into things like wanting to optimise data > paths depending on how busy each path is. Ahh, right. Basically you're talking about active/active load balancing. Yup, I'd like to have that, too. > No, sorry. I can't actually say what box we're buying yet since we > haven't signed the contract. :( You may be fortunate -- we were stupid enough to sign a three year lease on equipment we thought would do the job, but are now having some problems with. ;-( -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ====================================================================== Brad Knowles, || Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg, 124 Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/12.49 || B-1140 Brussels http://www.skynet.be || Belgium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message