Wilkinson, Alex wrote: > 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" ?
/dev is the public device namespace, /devices is private. -Chris > > -aW > > IMPORTANT: This email remains the property of the Australian Defence > Organisation and is subject to the jurisdiction of section 70 of the CRIMES > ACT 1914. If you have received this email in error, you are requested to > contact the sender and delete the email. > > > _______________________________________________ > storage-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
