Re: GEOM code ready for testing

2002-03-16 Thread Rasmus Skaarup
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

Re: GEOM code ready for testing

2002-03-14 Thread Dan Nelson
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

Re: GEOM code ready for testing

2002-03-14 Thread Doug White
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

Re: GEOM code ready for testing

2002-03-12 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
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

Re: GEOM code ready for testing

2002-03-12 Thread Justin T. Gibbs
>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

Re: GEOM code ready for testing

2002-03-12 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
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

Re: GEOM code ready for testing

2002-03-12 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
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

Re: GEOM code ready for testing

2002-03-12 Thread Rasmus Skaarup
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

Re: GEOM code ready for testing

2002-03-12 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
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?

Re: GEOM code ready for testing

2002-03-12 Thread Rasmus Skaarup
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

Re: GEOM code ready for testing

2002-03-12 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
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

Re: GEOM code ready for testing

2002-03-12 Thread Rasmus Skaarup
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

Re: GEOM code ready for testing

2002-03-11 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
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

Re: GEOM code ready for testing

2002-03-11 Thread Carl Makin
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