From: Steven Dake <sdake@mvista.com>
To: "Qi, Yanling" <yqi@lsil.com>
Cc: 'linux-scsi-reflector' <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: An array failover driver
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 15:17:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E02455C.9010305@mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: EB1DF7EA0D32D611B79C0002A51363F194A7BE@exw-ks.ks.lsil.com
There is a failover driver as part of the MD driver system. I think
someone has worked on a SCSI multipathing driver that automatically
picks up redundant paths and fails over on retries, etc.
-steve
Qi, Yanling wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>I am going to develop a multiple-pathing driver to support our storage array
>hardware on Linux(2.4 and later). I prefer the driver sit on the top of HBA
>drivers (fibre channel adapter drivers) and below middle level (the unifying
>layer). In other words, insert my pseudo driver into middle level and lower
>level drivers. The driver will take care of path failover. I am still in
>research phase. Do you have any suggestions?
>
>
>Thanks,
>
>Yanling Qi
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-19 22:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-19 21:56 An array failover driver Qi, Yanling
2002-12-19 22:17 ` Steven Dake [this message]
2002-12-19 22:24 ` Steve Ralston
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