Re: Apologies!!!

2009-09-11 Thread Dotan Barak
This email was quite interesting and made me think a little bit about the world we live in... (if you are talking about the 8 monkeys email) Dotan Nikhil Talpallikar wrote: > Hi, > > Very sorry for the previous mail which was actually intended for a few > people but somehow, by mistake got

Re: monitoring iscsi connections

2009-09-11 Thread Mike Christie
On 09/10/2009 05:23 PM, Chiradeep Vittal wrote: > Thanks. I'll take a look at the netlink interface. Not using multipath > for now, but will do so later. > > For basic monitoring of storage network problems, here's what I am > thinking: > 1. If there is a network failure, eventually cat /sys/block

[PATCH 1/1] BNX2I - Fix context mapping issue for architectures with PAGE_SIZE != 4096

2009-09-11 Thread Anil Veerabhadrappa
[BNX2I] Fix context mapping issue for architectures with PAGE_SIZE != 4096 * 5706/5708/5709 devices allow driver/user to set page size. By default it is set to 4096 * Current drivers do not program this register based on architecture type (e.g. x86 = 4K, IA64 = 16K) and by

Re: monitoring iscsi connections

2009-09-11 Thread Chiradeep Vittal
Very enlightening, thanks. If there is a constant stream of traffic over the iscsi session and there is a network failure, then the scsi eh timer should fire right? And the disk will then go offline (according to /sys/block// device/state )? I think where this is leading to is to use dm-multipath

Re: monitoring iscsi connections

2009-09-11 Thread Chiradeep Vittal
Thanks. I was looking for more granular error reporting (i.e., iscsi session X failed at Y / iscsi session X had Y errors between time A and time B) On Sep 10, 11:24 pm, "Ulrich Windl" wrote: > On 10 Sep 2009 at 10:53, solidguy wrote: > > > > > Is there a good way to monitor the iscsi sessions f