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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
To: christophe varoqui <christophe.varoqui@free.fr>
Cc: device-mapper development <dm-devel@redhat.com>,
	"linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [dm-devel] [multipath] SCSI device capacity mess
Date: 27 Oct 2004 17:57:21 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1098914250.1588.1.camel@mulgrave> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1098903759.12464.32.camel@zezette>

On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 15:02, christophe varoqui wrote:
> I wonder if it's not simpler just to remove the NOSTARTONADD flag on
> this devices in scsi_devinfo.c. I tested that and all the READ CAPACITY
> succeed as expected (DEC HSG80 / COMPAQ HSV*).
> 
> Wasn't this flag in part motivated by the lack of multipath support
> anyway ?
> 
> Even in a cluster context, I don't really buy the annoyance of
> occasional LUN ping-pong.

It's not occasional, it happens every time a single machine in the
cluster reboots and the HSG80 can take a while to transfer luns. 
Configure one with several hundred luns in a 32 node cluster and you'll
see why this flag exists...

James



  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-10-27 21:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-26 23:27 [multipath] SCSI device capacity mess christophe varoqui
2004-10-26 21:34 ` James Bottomley
2004-10-26 21:46   ` christophe varoqui
2004-10-27  8:17 ` [dm-devel] " Lars Marowsky-Bree
2004-10-27  8:42   ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2004-10-27 18:51     ` Bryan Henderson
2004-10-29 14:12       ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2004-10-29 16:48         ` Bryan Henderson
2004-10-27 19:02   ` christophe varoqui
2004-10-27 19:37     ` Eddie Williams
2004-10-27 20:19       ` christophe varoqui
2004-10-27 20:34         ` Greg Freemyer
2004-10-27 20:28     ` Philip R Auld
2004-10-27 21:57     ` James Bottomley [this message]
2004-10-28 11:37       ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2004-10-28 18:14         ` Patrick Mansfield
2004-10-28 18:21           ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2004-10-30  0:41             ` Patrick Mansfield
2004-10-30  1:01               ` Patrick Mansfield
2004-10-30  7:21               ` christophe varoqui
2004-10-30  8:22                 ` christophe varoqui
2004-11-02 15:23                 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2004-10-28 11:35     ` Lars Marowsky-Bree

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