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Subject: Re: FreeBSD on IBM blade servers
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I'm catching, as usual, the tail end of all such discussions, but if this i=
s
yet another discussion about multipathing, well, FreeBSD doesn't *do*
multipathing yet (to my knowledge), and it's going to take a bit more than
just fooling around with CAM or an HBA driver to make it work at a
commercial grade level.

On 10/27/05, Rainer Duffner <rainer@ultra-secure.de> wrote:
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> Wilko Bulte wrote:
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> >
> >
> >Maybe you can zone the fabric such that the HBA only sees one path to th=
e
> >storage?
> >
> >
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> I don't know if that is possible - it also totally defeats the purpose.
> We didn't buy the infrastructure twice (more or less) just to leave one
> half of it unused.
>
>
> >>Also, when I ran 5.4 on out BL20 blades, it liked to panic while
> >>rescanning the SCSI-bus (after adding some space to a LUN).
> >>
> >>
> >
> >THat is one of the things I still have to try, FreeBSD on our BL20pG2
> >
> >
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>
> I'll try 6.0 when I have some time.
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>
>
> Rainer
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