Storage - redundant path failover / failback - quo vadis linux?

2001-05-15 Thread Christoph Biardzki
Hi, I was investigating redundant path failover with FibreChannel disk devices during the last weeks. The idea is to use a second, redundant path to a storage device when the first one fails. Ideally one could also implement load balancing with these paths. The problem is really important whe

SCSI-Multipath driver for 2.4?

2001-04-25 Thread Christoph Biardzki
Hi, I wondered whether thera are already effrots to por the Multipath-driver for FibreChannel (http://t3.linuxcare.org) to the 2.4 kernel? This patch allows a transparent failover to another path to FC-attached disk in case the primary path fails. Is there any documentation about the changes i