----- Original Message ----- > On 3/1/2012 8:31 AM, Doug Ledford wrote: > > I would say we are simply getting to the point where we *know* we > > need > > opensm to handle more than one fabric from a single instance ;-) > > Why does a single OpenSM need to handle multiple subnets/fabrics ? > What's the issue with running multiple OpenSMs with each handling > it's > own subnet/fabric ?
Because it wasn't built with the idea in mind of sharing logs or cache directories, etc. Not to mention that the proliferation of files when you start multiple instances of opensm is pretty insane (have you counted how many different files opensm can be configured to require now a days...). -- Doug Ledford <dledf...@redhat.com> GPG KeyID: 0E572FDD http://people.redhat.com/dledford -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html