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From: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
To: Patrick Mansfield <patmans@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>,
	Giuliano Pochini <pochini@shiny.it>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Mike Anderson <andmike@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [patch for playing] Patch to support 4000 disks and maintain
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 16:18:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030411231842.GA4917@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030411130407.A9302@beaverton.ibm.com>

On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 01:04:07PM -0700, Patrick Mansfield wrote:
> If we had user scanning, and some sort of hotplug for targets coming and
> going, those be used to add and remove (or just fail) paths (at least for
> switch attached).

	That's the issue.  We need notification of add and remove, so we
don't find our multipathing hanging for 90s or more.  That's a big deal
to people, and it's a problem with the current md multipath.

Joel

-- 

 "I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said
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Joel Becker
Senior Member of Technical Staff
Oracle Corporation
E-mail: joel.becker@oracle.com
Phone: (650) 506-8127

      reply	other threads:[~2003-04-11 23:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-10 20:39 [patch for playing] Patch to support 4000 disks and maintain backward compatibility Badari Pulavarty
2003-04-10 20:54 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-04-11  0:08 ` Roman Zippel
2003-04-11  0:08   ` Roman Zippel
2003-04-11  1:25   ` Badari Pulavarty
2003-04-11  1:25     ` Badari Pulavarty
2003-04-11 15:43     ` Joel Becker
2003-04-11  8:04 ` [patch for playing] Patch to support 4000 disks and maintain Giuliano Pochini
2003-04-11 15:44   ` Joel Becker
2003-04-11 16:28     ` Badari Pulavarty
2003-04-11 17:57       ` Joel Becker
2003-04-11 18:12         ` Patrick Mansfield
2003-04-11 18:35           ` Joel Becker
2003-04-11 20:04             ` Patrick Mansfield
2003-04-11 23:18               ` Joel Becker [this message]

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