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Yes, we very much has considered this. What's your issue about this, per se?
Right now there's no framework code to directly exploit or prohibit multiple
paths to the same disk, whether via Fibre Channel or SCSI.

On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Carl Makin wrote:

> 
> Is anyone working on/considering this?
> 
> I'm about to start hooking FreeBSD boxes up to a *big* disk array which
> has the ability to make LUNS appear on multiple interfaces.  Being able to
> access LUNS via multiple paths could be a reasonable performance gain, as
> well as enhancing reliability.
> 
> 
> Carl.
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