From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 26 13:54:08 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D70AE1065670 for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:54:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mj@feral.com) Received: from ns1.feral.com (ns1.feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2C4F8FC17 for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:54:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.135.103] (c-24-7-47-62.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [24.7.47.62]) (authenticated bits=0) by ns1.feral.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p9QDs2Gs006877 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 06:54:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mj@feral.com) Message-ID: <4EA810F8.6050805@feral.com> Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 06:54:00 -0700 From: Matthew Jacob User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20110929 Thunderbird/7.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <20111026090947.GA90384@neveragain.de> In-Reply-To: <20111026090947.GA90384@neveragain.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (ns1.feral.com [192.67.166.1]); Wed, 26 Oct 2011 06:54:07 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: gmultipath: act/act, path checking? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:54:08 -0000 On 10/26/2011 2:09 AM, Dennis Koegel wrote: > Cheers, > > are there any plans to have gmultipath support for active/active? I was given patches but have lacked motivation to do it. > > Also, is there any way to check available paths periodically? As far as > I unterstand, once gmultipath kicks a certain path due to failure, it > will never come back automatically. (And it won't ever be used if it > isn't working at boot time) That is something that should have been fixed. I might be confused with the changes I did for Panasas that didn't make it back here, but I certainly had a rolling test where I ran for several days periodically failing one path and then then the other. > > I've found some discussion about this from 2008, but nothing since... > > Thanks, > - D. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"