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From: Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de>
To: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>,
	Scott Long <scott_long@adaptec.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Proposed enhancements to MD
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 14:56:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040116135646.GD27825@marowsky-bree.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040116074336.A12893@lists.us.dell.com>

On 2004-01-16T07:43:36,
   Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> said:

> > Do you know whether DDF can also support simple multipathing?
> Yes, the structure info for each physical disk allows for two (and
> only 2) paths to be represented.  But it's pretty limited, describing
> only SCSI-like paths with bus/id/lun only described in the current
> draft.  At the same time, there's a per-physical-disk GUID, such
> that if you find the same disk by multiple paths you can tell.
> There's room for enhancment/feedback in this space for certain.  

One would guess that for m-p, a mere media UUID would be completely
enough; one can simply scan where those are found.

If it encodes the bus/id/lun, I can forsee bad effects if the device
enumeration changes because the HBAs get swapped in their slots ;-)


Sincerely,
    Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@suse.de>

-- 
High Availability & Clustering	      \ ever tried. ever failed. no matter.
SUSE Labs			      | try again. fail again. fail better.
Research & Development, SUSE LINUX AG \ 	-- Samuel Beckett

  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-16 13:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <40033D02.8000207@adaptec.com>
2004-01-13 18:44 ` Proposed enhancements to MD Jeff Garzik
2004-01-13 19:01   ` John Bradford
2004-01-13 19:41   ` Matt Domsch
2004-01-13 22:10     ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-01-16  9:31     ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2004-01-16  9:57       ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-01-13 20:41   ` Scott Long
2004-01-13 22:33     ` Jure Pečar
2004-01-13 22:44       ` Scott Long
2004-01-13 22:56       ` viro
2004-01-14 15:52     ` Kevin Corry
2004-01-13 22:42   ` Luca Berra
2004-01-14 23:07 ` Neil Brown
2004-01-15 11:10   ` Norman Schmidt
2004-01-15 21:52   ` Matt Domsch
2004-01-16  9:24     ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2004-01-16 13:43       ` Matt Domsch
2004-01-16 13:56         ` Lars Marowsky-Bree [this message]
2004-01-16 14:06           ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-01-16 14:11             ` Matt Domsch
2004-01-16 14:13               ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-01-13  3:41 Proposed Enhancements " Scott Long
2004-01-13 10:24 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2004-01-13 18:03   ` Scott Long
2004-01-16  9:29     ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2004-01-13 14:19 ` Matt Domsch
2004-01-13 17:13   ` Andreas Dilger
2004-01-13 22:26     ` Andreas Dilger
2004-01-13 18:19   ` Kevin P. Fleming
2004-01-13 18:19   ` Jeff Garzik
2004-01-13 20:29     ` Chris Friesen
2004-01-13 20:35       ` Matt Domsch
2004-01-13 21:10     ` Matt Domsch

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