From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 17 22:26:31 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C28762C2 for ; Wed, 17 Apr 2013 22:26:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from outbackdingo@gmail.com) Received: from mail-oa0-f41.google.com (mail-oa0-f41.google.com [209.85.219.41]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 923F2A80 for ; Wed, 17 Apr 2013 22:26:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-oa0-f41.google.com with SMTP id g12so1223541oah.0 for ; Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:26:25 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=lE74kFiZ9KTh8UnBk9nurMko/ZC0c+H8hTGbXTTiCwU=; b=xmh6vDPvEGhdCOSdOneJI85D3uPQsiLISly6eApurJcetf1VMX2n1KefJuMooqIECP xtzQrTylz9BwVvhy5WEqoXVz8xwDDzi5ngNs15/20OPHnLU/Ii6qYzEjwI9aYnlv/FdQ dh5uc0YhzU9lw/P5hIihOrpO8z1vEYnqwj6SESa0JDFJYHQj4Qh/dasllLWPNdMh6NRi XTH8Q0Hu24YU0x4yCnN0wVC0+Nqg04H9W3hDzx1XC9owY1ydIdcRyOl0HU9wUFdZyWHw BmwMF1HJ0aSclNo3kpDbtM/kPYz2li25184wn34lwOPYDzXjxXyuwoq+oCKWmUDeL03L 322Q== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.182.19.168 with SMTP id g8mr3729661obe.21.1366237585708; Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:26:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.76.135.194 with HTTP; Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:26:25 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 18:26:25 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: gmultipath, ses and shared disks / cant seem to share between local nodes From: Outback Dingo To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 22:26:31 -0000 Ok, maybe im at a loss here in the way my brain is viewing this we have a box, its got 2 nodes in the chassis, and 32 sata drives attached to a SATA/SAS backplane via 4 (2 per node) LSI MPT SAS2 cards should i not logically be seeing 4 controllers X #drive count ?? camcontrol devlist shows 32 devices, daX,passX and sesX,passX at scbus0 target 9 lun 0 (da0,pass0) at scbus0 target 10 lun 0 (ses0,pass1) at scbus0 target 11 lun 0 (da1,pass2) at scbus0 target 12 lun 0 (ses1,pass3) at scbus0 target 13 lun 0 (da2,pass4) at scbus0 target 14 lun 0 (ses2,pass5) at scbus0 target 15 lun 0 (da3,pass6) at scbus0 target 16 lun 0 (ses3,pass7) at scbus0 target 17 lun 0 (da4,pass8) at scbus0 target 18 lun 0 (ses4,pass9) at scbus0 target 19 lun 0 (da5,pass10) at scbus0 target 20 lun 0 (ses5,pass11) at scbus0 target 21 lun 0 (da6,pass12) at scbus0 target 22 lun 0 (ses6,pass13) at scbus0 target 23 lun 0 (da7,pass14) at scbus0 target 24 lun 0 (ses7,pass15) at scbus1 target 0 lun 0 (da8,pass16) at scbus1 target 1 lun 0 (da9,pass17) at scbus8 target 10 lun 0 (ses8,pass19) at scbus8 target 11 lun 0 (da11,pass20) at scbus8 target 12 lun 0 (ses9,pass21) at scbus8 target 13 lun 0 (da12,pass22) at scbus8 target 14 lun 0 (ses10,pass23) at scbus8 target 15 lun 0 (da13,pass24) at scbus8 target 16 lun 0 (ses11,pass25) at scbus8 target 17 lun 0 (da14,pass26) at scbus8 target 18 lun 0 (ses12,pass27) at scbus8 target 19 lun 0 (da15,pass28) at scbus8 target 20 lun 0 (ses13,pass29) at scbus8 target 21 lun 0 (da16,pass30) at scbus8 target 22 lun 0 (ses14,pass31) at scbus8 target 23 lun 0 (da17,pass32) at scbus8 target 24 lun 0 (ses15,pass33) at scbus9 target 0 lun 0 (da18,pass34) we would like to create a zpool from all the devices, that in theory if nodeA failed then nodeB could force import the pool, nodeA and NodeB are attached through dual LSI controllers, to the SATA/SAS backplane. but i cant seem to create a zpool from sesX or passX devices, i can however create a 16 drive zp0ol on either node, from any daX device. what did i miss? ive looked at gmirror, and also ses documents. Any insight is appreciated, thanks in advance.