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From: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>,
	device-mapper development <dm-devel@redhat.com>,
	lmb@novell.com
Subject: Re: RFC: multipath IO multiplex
Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2010 11:51:02 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101106115102.GF10171@agk-dp.fab.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101106053203.7e4ef435@notabene>

On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 05:32:03AM -0400, Neil Brown wrote:
>  Might it make sense to configure a range of the device where writes always
>  went down all paths?  That would seem to fit with your problem description
>  and might be easiest??

Indeed - a persistent property of the device (even another interface with a
different minor number) not the I/O.

And what is the nature of the data being written, given that I/O to one path
might get delayed and arrive long after it was sent, overwriting data
sent later.  Successful stale writes will always be recognised as such
by readers - how?
 
Alasdair

  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-06 11:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-05 18:39 RFC: multipath IO multiplex Lars Marowsky-Bree
2010-11-06  9:32 ` Neil Brown
2010-11-06 11:51   ` Alasdair G Kergon [this message]
2010-11-06 16:57     ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2010-11-07 10:30       ` Christophe Varoqui
2010-11-08 11:50         ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2010-11-08 12:12           ` Alasdair G Kergon
2010-11-08 12:19             ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2010-11-08 12:42               ` Hannes Reinecke
2010-11-08 12:56               ` Alasdair G Kergon
2010-11-08 14:18                 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2010-11-06 17:03   ` Lars Marowsky-Bree

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