From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: Summary of the Multi-Path BOF at OLS and future directions Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 13:15:43 +0100 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20030808131543.A5698@infradead.org> References: <64655AAA92E6ED46B9AC9421260D96A5025BD653@srmanning.lss.emc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from pub234.cambridge.redhat.com ([213.86.99.234]:51716 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271116AbTHHMPq (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Aug 2003 08:15:46 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <64655AAA92E6ED46B9AC9421260D96A5025BD653@srmanning.lss.emc.com>; from jansen_frank@emc.com on Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 08:13:11AM -0400 List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: "jansen, frank" Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?'Josef_M=F6llers'?= , Christoph Hellwig , James Bottomley , SCSI Mailing List On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 08:13:11AM -0400, jansen, frank wrote: > The delineation between the EMC boxes that require vs. not require > a "TRESPASS" command lies not with their age, but rather their family. > The CLARiiON family of Storage Arrays require a "TRESPASS" command to > move a LUN from one redundant Storage Processor (SP) to another. On the > other hand, Symmetrix Storage Arrays do not use any such behavior. In > a nutshell, the Symmetrix is active on all paths, on which the LUN is > presented, whereas the CLARiiON is active on one SP and passive on the > other SP. So it's rather DG arrays vs EMC ones, ok.