From owner-freebsd-current Thu Mar 30 16:40:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au (pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au [202.14.186.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D50237B520 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 16:40:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from carl@xena.aipo.gov.au) Received: (from smap@localhost) by pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA53897; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 10:40:30 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from carl@xena.aipo.gov.au) Received: from newton.aipo.gov.au(10.0.100.18) by pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au via smap (V2.0) id xma053886; Fri, 31 Mar 00 10:40:13 +1000 Received: from localhost (carl@localhost) by newton.aipo.gov.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA07995; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 10:41:47 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from carl@xena.aipo.gov.au) X-Authentication-Warning: newton.aipo.gov.au: carl owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 10:41:47 +1000 (EST) From: Carl Makin X-Sender: carl@newton.aipo.gov.au To: Brad Knowles Cc: mjacob@feral.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dual Pathing to SCSI/FC devices. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Brad Knowles wrote: > At 4:28 PM -0800 2000/3/28, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > Yes, we very much has considered this. What's your issue about this, per se? > Myself, I just need to be able to tell the system that SCSI ID x > LUN y is actually the same logical device as SCSI ID v LUN w, but > that one is preferred and the other is backup, and have FreeBSD deal > with doing the re-targeting in the CAM SCSI driver. heh, the buzzword for this is "Dynamic Failover". :) In management circles where the current focus is on 24x7, this is seen as a distinct advantage. > The end result should be that nothing above the CAM SCSI driver > should know that a switch has occurred -- especially not programs > Same deal with fibrechannel as SCSI. > Does that about sum it up? Yes. That was pretty much what I was thinking. "Dual Pathing" the buzzword for using both paths to the device would also be desirable, but then you get into things like wanting to optimise data paths depending on how busy each path is. > Oh, and Carl -- I don't suppose you're looking at Hitachi DF400 > (sometimes rebadged as Comparex D1400) units, are you? If so, I'd No, sorry. I can't actually say what box we're buying yet since we haven't signed the contract. :( Carl. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message