Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 12:10:42 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> Cc: Matthew Jacob <lydianconcepts@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Rainer Duffner <rainer@ultra-secure.de> Subject: Re: FreeBSD on IBM blade servers Message-ID: <38105.1130580642@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 29 Oct 2005 11:07:22 %2B0200." <20051029090722.GA3432@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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In message <20051029090722.GA3432@freebie.xs4all.nl>, Wilko Bulte writes: >On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 07:53:33PM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote.. >> I'm catching, as usual, the tail end of all such discussions, but if this is >> yet another discussion about multipathing, well, FreeBSD doesn't *do* >> multipathing yet (to my knowledge), and it's going to take a bit more than >> just fooling around with CAM or an HBA driver to make it work at a >> commercial grade level. > >Absolutely. > >I think phk has done some work in the past for a customer of him >with multipathing to a DEC HSG80. I could be wrong though. geom_fox is a rudimentary multipath tool. Unfortunately (at least when no fabric switch is involved) the isp driver never seems to time out a request (it just waits for another civilization to appear and provide the lemon soaked paper-napkins) so it doesn't really work well. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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