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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Cc: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>,
	Mike Anderson <mike.anderson@us.ibm.com>,
	Eric.Ayers@intec-telecom-systems.com, "Roets,
	Chris" <Chris.Roets@compaq.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux Cluster using shared scsi
Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 09:52:03 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200105031352.JAA01246@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>  of "Thu, 03 May 2001 08:53:42 EDT." <200105031253.IAA00988@localhost.localdomain>

There is another nasty in multi-port arrays that I should perhaps point out:  
a bus reset isn't supposed to drop the reservation if it was taken on another 
port.  A device or LUN reset will drop reservations on all ports.  This 
behaviour, although clearly mandated by the SCSI-3-SPC, is rather patchily 
implemented in arrays and I have seen some multi-port arrays that will, 
illegally, drop reservations on all ports on receipt of a bus reset.

Unfortunately, most Linux SCSI drivers won't issue device resets on command, 
they'll only issue bus resets, so it is possible to get into a situation where 
you cannot break a reservation belonging to a dead machine, if you set up a 
point-to-point cluster rather than a true shared-scsi one.

James



  reply	other threads:[~2001-05-03 13:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-05-01 13:07 Linux Cluster using shared scsi Roets, Chris
2001-05-01 14:45 ` James Bottomley
2001-05-01 16:10   ` Doug Ledford
2001-05-01 17:05     ` Eric Z. Ayers
2001-05-01 20:38       ` Alan Cox
2001-05-01 20:52         ` James Bottomley
2001-05-01 21:07         ` Eric Z. Ayers
2001-05-01 21:24           ` Alan Cox
2001-05-02 15:20       ` Doug Ledford
2001-05-02 16:37         ` Eddie Williams
2001-05-02 17:20         ` Mike Anderson
2001-05-02 17:50           ` Doug Ledford
2001-05-02 18:55             ` Mike Anderson
2001-05-02 20:31               ` Doug Ledford
2001-05-03 12:53                 ` James Bottomley
2001-05-03 13:52                   ` James Bottomley [this message]
2001-05-02 17:39         ` Max TenEyck Woodbury
2001-05-02 17:47           ` Doug Ledford
2001-05-02 21:03             ` Pavel Machek
2001-05-03 19:57               ` Eric Z. Ayers
2001-05-03 22:32                 ` Jonathan Lundell
2001-05-02 21:47             ` Max TenEyck Woodbury
2001-05-02 23:16               ` Doug Ledford
2001-05-04 14:52             ` Eddie Williams
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-04-27 15:11 James Bottomley
2001-04-27 13:18 Roets, Chris

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