Re: [LARTC] multipath algorithm

[Aleksander <aleksander@krediidiinfo.ee>]

William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:
> From memory the reasoning for not including had nothing to do with
> issues like that. I believe it was more of a demand vs benefit thing. If
> everything everyone wanted or used went into the kernel it would be
> huge, slow, and etc.
> 
> So unless there is a very large demand for things, allot will never be
> included. Very possible Julian's patches and work falls into that
> category. Since in my experience, I have come across little to nobody
> who has done multipath stuff with the Linux kernel. Or multiple ISP's on
> box etc. However it's quite popular globally, and I would think anyone
> in the small to medium size business or network would be interested.
> 
> Still shocked its still not more popular. However allot tend to look for
> off the shelf solutions they can write a check for :) The ones that work
> are $. The others are limited solutions. Granted the Linux kernel route
> is not an elegant one. Since it's crude load balancing and failover and
> etc.

Hi,

Just wanted to mention that your discussion got me really interested. 
And I'm sure a lot of people would be interested in this feature with 
the latest linux kernels.

I'm not a developer and don't have enough knowledge in C to tinker with 
the kernel. But as system admin I would gladly help with testing and 
experimenting.

Please keep the discussion and development, if any, on the lartc list. 
No reply to this mail required.

Thanks,
	Alex

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