From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 29 09:07:25 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3889A16A424; Sat, 29 Oct 2005 09:07:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from smtp-vbr2.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr2.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.22]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 831C043D48; Sat, 29 Oct 2005 09:07:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by smtp-vbr2.xs4all.nl (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j9T97MEe016907; Sat, 29 Oct 2005 11:07:22 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.13.4/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j9T97M1p003470; Sat, 29 Oct 2005 11:07:22 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: (from wb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.13.4/8.13.1/Submit) id j9T97M9m003469; Sat, 29 Oct 2005 11:07:22 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wb) Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 11:07:22 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: Matthew Jacob , Paul-Henning Kamp Message-ID: <20051029090722.GA3432@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <139e33fd0505170202a18e7c0@mail.gmail.com> <435F9095.507@ultra-secure.de> <20051026145643.GA44296@freebie.xs4all.nl> <435FB117.2030003@ultra-secure.de> <20051026175916.GB45100@freebie.xs4all.nl> <4360D0A2.6020502@ultra-secure.de> <7579f7fb0510281953y1e43ed54ub7f4ef0513340f13@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7579f7fb0510281953y1e43ed54ub7f4ef0513340f13@mail.gmail.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 6.0-RC1 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Cc: FreeBSD Current , Rainer Duffner Subject: Re: FreeBSD on IBM blade servers X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 09:07:25 -0000 On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 07:53:33PM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote.. > I'm catching, as usual, the tail end of all such discussions, but if this is > 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. Absolutely. I think phk has done some work in the past for a customer of him with multipathing to a DEC HSG80. I could be wrong though. Wilko > > On 10/27/05, Rainer Duffner wrote: > > > > Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > > > > > > > > >Maybe you can zone the fabric such that the HBA only sees one path to the > > >storage? > > > > > > > > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > I'll try 6.0 when I have some time. > > > > > > > > Rainer > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > --- end of quoted text --- -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org