From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Steven Dake Subject: Re: An array failover driver Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 15:17:00 -0700 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3E02455C.9010305@mvista.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: "Qi, Yanling" Cc: 'linux-scsi-reflector' 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 >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > > > >