0n Thu, May 22, 2008 at 05:46:26PM -0600, Chris Horne wrote:
>> 0n Fri, May 23, 2008 at 08:19:03AM +1000, James C. McPherson wrote:
>>
>> >Rongsheng Fang wrote:
>> >> James,
>> >>
>> >> Thanks for you reply. We are currently using Veritas DMP for
>> >> multipathing. I understand MPxIO creates one psedo device to
represent
>> >> all the paths to a physical disk/LUN. So with MPxIO, does it mean
that
>> >> Solaris will just need to discover the MPxIO pseudo device
indtead of all
>> >> the paths a LUN thereforce make the boot process much shorter?
>> >
>> >Hi Rongshen,
>> >Yes, that is indeed the case.
>> >
>> >For Nevada we've made really big improvements in boot time
>> >for configurations such as yours - build 85 and later is
>> >looking really good in that area :-)
>
>...some of the important improvements are not there until 87.
>
>>
>> So conceptually, having multipathing software setup will speed up
bootstrap time
>> significantly ?
>
>MPxIO helps reduce public namespace overhead since all paths to a
>device show up under a single public name.
What is meant by a "public namespace" ?
-aW
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