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

Patrick Mansfield
2003-04-11T18:04:57Z

On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 10:57:37AM -0700, Joel Becker wrote:

> > Fortunately, the multipath solution Mike Anderson & Patrick Mansfield
> > working on, colapses all the disks you see thro multiple paths into
> > number of realdisks (4000). So you don't really need extra devices
> > to support multipathing.
>
> Yes, but what if I want to see the multiple paths? Does their
> solution allow you to specify the path behind the 'realdisk'? Does it
> allow querying of the paths?
>
> Joel

Seeing the path to disk relationship - yes (via proc for now, eventually
via sysfs).

Specifying from user space what path goes with what disk (explicitly): no,
that might require user level scanning.

Query a path - seeing and setting path states yes (via proc right now).
Using sg with a specified path - no, but on the TODO list.

I'm trying to pull the current multi-path patch up to 2.5.66 (ouch).

The last functioning patch was against 2.5.59, some general info:

http://www-124.ibm.com/storageio/multipath/scsi-multipath/index.php

Or the patch:

http://www-124.ibm.com/storageio/multipath/scsi-multipath/releases/2.5.59-mpath-1.patch.gz

-- Patrick Mansfield