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 she said

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 cards

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 drivers a shot? I was

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 Adaptec did too.

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 inaccesible

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

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,