From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Apr 25 10:46:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA21749 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 10:46:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.artcom.de ([192.76.129.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA21727 for ; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 10:46:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hans@artcom.de) Received: from transrapid.artcom.de by mail.artcom.de with smtp id m0yT91q-00000nC; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 19:46:22 +0200 (MEST) Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 19:46:21 +0200 (MEST) From: Hans Huebner To: Eivind Eklund cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD HA configuration / Ethernet address takeover In-Reply-To: <19980425183120.29137@follo.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Eivind, thanks for your reply. I'll have a look at the DPT driver in a few weeks. -Hans On Sat, 25 Apr 1998, Eivind Eklund wrote: > 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