On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Smith, Stan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Sufficool, Stanley wrote:
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: [email protected]
>>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Worley
>>> Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2010 9:00 AM
>>> To: [email protected]
>>> Subject: [ofw] ***SPAM*** Proper way to re-find mirror of SRP drives
>>> after link broken
>>>
>>>
>>> In testing SRP over windows, with two drives over SRP
>>> mirrored, pulling then replacing the IB cable, the drives come
>>> back as "foreign" and need to be manually imported.
>>>
>>> That tells me that Windows is finding something about the
>>> return of the drives to be different than before.
>>>
>>> Is there a way to assure Windows sees these drives as the
>>> drives it had before?
>>
>> SRP on OFED-W is broken. It sends a DREQ on driver start but AFTER
>> the volume is mounted. So not even a basic volume will mount
>> reliably.
>
>
> Lets be clear hear w.r.t. Windows SRP.
> I'm not disputing what your claiming w.r.t. the timing of DREQ xmits, but as 
> far as basic mounts working, they mount just fine for vdisks.

It does mount reliably after reboot... cable reconnect is the issue.

This is a vdisk on the Linux side... I'm not sure of the vdisk you're
referring to.

Are you saying there is no work-around for pulling/pushing the IB
cable (other than manually importing then recreating the mirror)?

Thanks,

Chris
>
> stan smith.
>
>
>>
>> You will also find that this happens on a warm boot of the initiator.
>>
>> I'm not sure if this is your specific issue.
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Chris
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