Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 11:07:22 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Matthew Jacob <lydianconcepts@gmail.com>, Paul-Henning Kamp <phk@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Rainer Duffner <rainer@ultra-secure.de> Subject: Re: FreeBSD on IBM blade servers Message-ID: <20051029090722.GA3432@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <7579f7fb0510281953y1e43ed54ub7f4ef0513340f13@mail.gmail.com> References: <139e33fd0505170202a18e7c0@mail.gmail.com> <435F9095.507@ultra-secure.de> <20051026145643.GA44296@freebie.xs4all.nl> <435FB117.2030003@ultra-secure.de> <20051026175916.GB45100@freebie.xs4all.nl> <4360D0A2.6020502@ultra-secure.de> <7579f7fb0510281953y1e43ed54ub7f4ef0513340f13@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 07:53:33PM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote.. > I'm catching, as usual, the tail end of all such discussions, but if this is > yet another discussion about multipathing, well, FreeBSD doesn't *do* > multipathing yet (to my knowledge), and it's going to take a bit more than > just fooling around with CAM or an HBA driver to make it work at a > commercial grade level. Absolutely. I think phk has done some work in the past for a customer of him with multipathing to a DEC HSG80. I could be wrong though. Wilko > > On 10/27/05, Rainer Duffner <rainer@ultra-secure.de> wrote: > > > > Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > > > > > > > > >Maybe you can zone the fabric such that the HBA only sees one path to the > > >storage? > > > > > > > > > > > > I don't know if that is possible - it also totally defeats the purpose. > > We didn't buy the infrastructure twice (more or less) just to leave one > > half of it unused. > > > > > > >>Also, when I ran 5.4 on out BL20 blades, it liked to panic while > > >>rescanning the SCSI-bus (after adding some space to a LUN). > > >> > > >> > > > > > >THat is one of the things I still have to try, FreeBSD on our BL20pG2 > > > > > > > > > > > > I'll try 6.0 when I have some time. > > > > > > > > Rainer > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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" > > --- end of quoted text --- -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org
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