From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 26 17:04:52 2011 Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84CFB10656D0 for <current@freebsd.org>; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 17:04:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mavbsd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ey0-f182.google.com (mail-ey0-f182.google.com [209.85.215.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15B448FC14 for <current@freebsd.org>; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 17:04:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eyd10 with SMTP id 10so2261425eyd.13 for <current@freebsd.org>; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 10:04:51 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=OchUTJ8ZwAPh4w0iCgTuqN4hxa38mvDbUODAM1LzN8M=; b=lkG+rPIofr+YPqW1fUVkjVzvDBhzq/vPJOWIiTgJs4b2jC5WMjsOcCEUPRoz9WbeV+ QxHVlO79OKo81kK8O6sfk3M4hOKp5qN13jsYKa3BEjOuIL/pvLHf2jGJezl1m9hWDPIT MWJcM1TFr8fdyKGlGGOvOl5y6NmUfwYsKsdXg= Received: by 10.14.4.129 with SMTP id 1mr3877849eej.228.1319648690809; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 10:04:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mavbook.mavhome.dp.ua (pc.mavhome.dp.ua. [212.86.226.226]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e62sm7022427eee.10.2011.10.26.10.04.49 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 26 Oct 2011 10:04:49 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Alexander Motin <mavbsd@gmail.com> Message-ID: <4EA83DB1.4070602@FreeBSD.org> Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 20:04:49 +0300 From: Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20110910 Thunderbird/6.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dennis Koegel <dk@neveragain.de> References: <mailpost.1319620241.2342340.73338.mailing.freebsd.current@FreeBSD.cs.nctu.edu.tw> In-Reply-To: <mailpost.1319620241.2342340.73338.mailing.freebsd.current@FreeBSD.cs.nctu.edu.tw> X-Enigmail-Version: undefined Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: current <current@freebsd.org> 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 <freebsd-current.freebsd.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current>, <mailto:freebsd-current-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current> List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-current@freebsd.org> List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-current-request@freebsd.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current>, <mailto:freebsd-current-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 17:04:52 -0000 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