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In message <20051029090722.GA3432@freebie.xs4all.nl>, Wilko Bulte writes:
>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.

geom_fox is a rudimentary multipath tool.  Unfortunately (at least
when no fabric switch is involved) the isp driver never seems to
time out a request (it just waits for another civilization to appear
and provide the lemon soaked paper-napkins) so it doesn't really
work well.

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