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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
To: "Smart, James" <James.Smart@Emulex.com>
Cc: 'Patrick Mansfield' <patmans@us.ibm.com>,
	"Philip R. Auld" <pauld@egenera.com>,
	Simon Kelley <simon@thekelleys.org.uk>,
	SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	dm-devel@sistina.com
Subject: RE: Is there a grand plan for FC failover?
Date: 28 Jan 2004 17:16:51 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1075328212.2534.14.camel@mulgrave> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3356669BBE90C448AD4645C843E2BF2802C013B0@xbl.ma.emulex.com>

On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 16:02, Smart, James wrote:
> I'd add one additional issue :
> 
> 3) SCSI Reservations
> 
> I guess this could be considered a part of (2), but given that reservations
> bring in a host of additional problems, and potentially brings up multi-host
> configs/clusters as well...

The current crop of cluster implementations that use reservations manage
quite well in user space alone.  Certainly, though, the presence of
reservations can interfere with failover code and may be considered a
problem that needs to be solved in multi-path...it all depends on how
the multi-path devices react to path switching in the face of
reservations.

I'm open to suggestions on this,  but I think it should be done
separately as part of a device ownership API.

James



  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-28 22:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-28 21:02 Is there a grand plan for FC failover? Smart, James
2004-01-28 22:16 ` James Bottomley [this message]
2004-01-29 14:49   ` Philip R. Auld
2004-01-29 15:05     ` James Bottomley
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-01-29 19:37 Smart, James
2004-01-29 18:41 Smart, James
2004-01-29 17:35 Smart, James
2004-01-29 18:31 ` Mike Anderson
2004-01-29 18:31 ` James Bottomley
2004-01-26 14:18 Simon Kelley
2004-01-26 15:37 ` James Bottomley
2004-01-28 15:02   ` Philip R. Auld
2004-01-28 16:57     ` James Bottomley
2004-01-28 18:00       ` Philip R. Auld
2004-01-28 20:47         ` Patrick Mansfield
2004-01-28 22:14           ` James Bottomley
2004-01-29  0:55             ` Patrick Mansfield
2004-01-28 22:37         ` Mike Christie
2004-01-29 15:24           ` Philip R. Auld
2004-01-29 16:00             ` James Bottomley
2004-01-29 23:25               ` Mike Christie

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