On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Mark Veteikis wrote:
> >
> >
> > I'm interested in combining two or more active hosts with multiple devices on a
> > single parallel SCSI bus. I've successfully done this, but don't know the
> > extent of problems which could arise when hosts or disks are added or removed
> > (crashed) on the in-use bus.
> >
> > A) How likely is it that the scsi driver(s) will see errors when nodes and
> > drives come and go and are there specific cases which are bad?
> >
> > B) What are the possibilities of a node surviving if it sees scsi errors?
> >
> > C) How much work would it take to make all these odd cases reliable?
> >
> > I'm interested in the status on both 2.2 and 2.4.
> > Thanks.
>
> Have you looked at Fibre Channel? Linux has support. Or are your
> target devices/HBAs locked into SCSI?
Does the Fibre Channel back-end of the Linux SCSI stack solve all the
problems? I am sceptic, since it relies on the SCSI stack.
Regards
Martin Peschke
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