Re: GEOM for multipath? How?

2005-11-10 Thread Danny Howard
On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 03:01:13PM +0100, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 02:48:15PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > +> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sergey > +> Babkin writes: > +> >QLogic worked fine in multi-path configuration with UnixWare. > +> >I think LSI and Adapt

Re: GEOM for multipath? How?

2005-11-10 Thread Pawel Jakub Dawidek
On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 02:48:15PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: +> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sergey +> Babkin writes: +> >>From: Danny Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +> > +> >>Hey ... yes, I recall there being issues with the QLogic drivers ... I +> >>wonder if anyone has given the mpt driver

Re: Re: GEOM for multipath? How?

2005-11-10 Thread Sergey Babkin
>From: Danny Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Hey ... yes, I recall there being issues with the QLogic drivers ... I >wonder if anyone has given the mpt drivers a shot? I was able to speak >with an engineer at Engenio (now owned by LSI) and she said there were >some issues with the QLogic dual-port ca

Re: GEOM for multipath? How?

2005-11-10 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sergey Babkin writes: >>From: Danny Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>Hey ... yes, I recall there being issues with the QLogic drivers ... I >>wonder if anyone has given the mpt drivers a shot? I was able to speak >>with an engineer at Engenio (now owned by LSI) and s

Re: GEOM for multipath? How?

2005-11-09 Thread Danny Howard
Gurney, Hey ... yes, I recall there being issues with the QLogic drivers ... I wonder if anyone has given the mpt drivers a shot? I was able to speak with an engineer at Engenio (now owned by LSI) and she said there were some issues with the QLogic dual-port cards that were interesting to her, bu

GEOM for multipath? How?

2005-11-09 Thread Danny Howard
Hello, Alas, my fancy Engenio dual-FC disk array is inaccessible to me for testing. :( But we are working on switching over to RHEL due to availability of FC multi-path redundancy drivers for RHEL but nada for FreeBSD. I was reading Linux' md man page, which sounds awfully similar to geom, and t

Re: GEOM for multipath? How?

2005-11-09 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Danny Howard wrote this message on Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 13:25 -0800: > And I says to myself "AHA! Multipath should be easy to implement on > FreeBSD as well, via geom." But I can't find an obvious way given > existing geom utils to do this. And like I said, the box I'd use this > on is inaccesib