From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Apr 25 09:31:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA12636 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 09:31:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.119.24.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA12625 for ; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 09:31:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [194.198.43.36]) by ns1.yes.no (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA03931; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 16:31:20 GMT Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id SAA10578; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 18:31:20 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19980425183120.29137@follo.net> Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 18:31:20 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund To: Hans Huebner , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD HA configuration / Ethernet address takeover References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Hans Huebner on Sat, Apr 25, 1998 at 03:11:21PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Apr 25, 1998 at 03:11:21PM +0200, Hans Huebner wrote: > Any pointers, hints or suggestions are greatly appreciated. I'd also be > interested in any reports on running two FreeBSD systems on one shared > SCSI bus. I suppose the disk driver would need to be changed quite a bit > to make use of the RESERVE UNIT SCSI command to prevent access collisions. Simon Shapiro has written code to do this for the DPT, specifically to enable FreeBSD to do HA. I've got the code here for commit, but need to do some re-writes for the splXX() use (at the suggestion of Bruce). Now it looks like I won't get time for it this weekend, either; I have to help fix up somebody else's botch at work :-( Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message