On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Doug White wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Rasmus Skaarup wrote:
>
> > Hmm, but I'm not sure all kinds of storage devices have serialnumbers that
> > could be fetched (tape devices for instance?) and can we rely on the
> > hardware manufacturers to provide unique serialnumbers
In the last episode (Mar 14), Doug White said:
> On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Rasmus Skaarup wrote:
> > Hmm, but I'm not sure all kinds of storage devices have
> > serialnumbers that could be fetched (tape devices for instance?)
> > and can we rely on the hardware manufacturers to provide unique
> > seria
On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Rasmus Skaarup wrote:
> Hmm, but I'm not sure all kinds of storage devices have serialnumbers that
> could be fetched (tape devices for instance?) and can we rely on the
> hardware manufacturers to provide unique serialnumbers?
Although it's an isolated case, you do have glo
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Kenneth D. Merry" writes:
>> > >Would GEOM support accessing a device via multiple paths? (ie could we
>> > >write a method that would do that?)
>> >
>> > Yes, that would be possible.
>
>FWIW, Justin and I have been thinking about (for years, actually) doing
>mult
>FWIW, Justin and I have been thinking about (for years, actually) doing
>multipath support inside CAM.
Actually, the multipathing support would be in new-bus and CAM would be
one newbus client able to detect redundant paths and register them
accordingly.
The main thing to remember is that there
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 11:58:02 +0100, Rasmus Skaarup wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Carl Makin writes:
>
> > >On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 06:34, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> > >
> > >> The GEOM code is now ready for early testing:
> > >
> > >W
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rasmus Skaarup writes:
>> Well, the recognition/configuration issue is not one GEOM magically can
>> solve for you, but GEOM promises that if you can recognize it and
>> configure it, GEOM will not get in your way for doing what you want.
>
>But what if the name of
On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rasmus Skaarup writes:
>
> >> How you would recognize the same disk on thre different paths is a good
> >> question. We could implement (if we don't already have it) an
> >> ioctl/BIO_GETATTR which returns the seria
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rasmus Skaarup writes:
>> Basically when a new "g_provider" is created it is offered to each method
>> in turn and if that method likes it, it can stick g_geom on top of it.
>
>Ahh.. But do you rule out the possibility that two methods could apply to
>a g_provider?
On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rasmus Skaarup writes:
> >
> >On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> >
> >> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Carl Makin writes:
> >
> >> >Would GEOM support accessing a device via multiple paths? (ie could we
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rasmus Skaarup writes:
>
>On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>
>> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Carl Makin writes:
>
>> >On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 06:34, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> >
>> >> The GEOM code is now ready for early testing:
>> >
>> >Would GEOM s
On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Carl Makin writes:
> >On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 06:34, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> >
> >> The GEOM code is now ready for early testing:
> >
> >Would GEOM support accessing a device via multiple paths? (ie could we
> >wri
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Carl Makin writes:
>Hi,
>
>On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 06:34, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>
>> The GEOM code is now ready for early testing:
>
>Would GEOM support accessing a device via multiple paths? (ie could we
>write a method that would do that?)
Yes, that would be pos
Hi,
On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 06:34, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> The GEOM code is now ready for early testing:
Would GEOM support accessing a device via multiple paths? (ie could we
write a method that would do that?)
My current situation is that I have a couple of IBM ESS F20 Sharks each
with 3 fi
The GEOM code is now ready for early testing:
http://phk.freebsd.dk/geom
There is a known timing issue with ATA controllers with both a
master and a slave disk, sos@ and I are looking into it.
Apart from that it "should just work".
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