Re: [patch for playing] Patch to support 4000 disks and maintain

Joel Becker
2003-04-11T23:08:41Z

On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 01:04:07PM -0700, Patrick Mansfield wrote:
> If we had user scanning, and some sort of hotplug for targets coming and
> going, those be used to add and remove (or just fail) paths (at least for
> switch attached).

That's the issue. We need notification of add and remove, so we
don't find our multipathing hanging for 90s or more. That's a big deal
to people, and it's a problem with the current md multipath.

Joel

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