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Date:      Wed, 26 Oct 2011 20:04:49 +0300
From:      Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Dennis Koegel <dk@neveragain.de>
Cc:        current <current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: gmultipath: act/act, path checking?
Message-ID:  <4EA83DB1.4070602@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <mailpost.1319620241.2342340.73338.mailing.freebsd.current@FreeBSD.cs.nctu.edu.tw>
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Hi.

On 26.10.2011 12:09, Dennis Koegel wrote:
> are there any plans to have gmultipath support for active/active?
> 
> 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)

I haven't tested it, but if gmultipath behaves same as other GEOM
classes with on-disk metadata, new paths should be connected
automatically when detected. Boot time in GEOM is not different from
later operation.

-- 
Alexander Motin



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