From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 17:46:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 17:46:36 -0500 Received: from gate.in-addr.de ([212.8.193.158]:24028 "EHLO mx.in-addr.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 17:46:35 -0500 Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 23:56:17 +0100 From: Lars Marowsky-Bree To: Lincoln Dale , Matt Mackall Cc: Jeff Garzik , ptb@it.uc3m.es, Justin Cormack , linux kernel Subject: Re: [PATCH] ENBD for 2.5.64 Message-ID: <20030326225617.GB13344@marowsky-bree.de> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20030327091616.03a2ce60@mira-sjcm-3.cisco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20030327091616.03a2ce60@mira-sjcm-3.cisco.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Ctuhulu: HASTUR Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 2003-03-27T09:16:18, Lincoln Dale said: > what logic do you use to identify "identical devices"? > same data reported from SCSI Report_LUNs? or perhaps the same data > reported from a SCSI_Inquiry? That would work well. We do parse device specific information in order to auto-configure the md multipath at setup time. After that, magic is on disk... > does one now need to add logic into the kernel to provide some multipathing > for HDS disks? Topology discovery is user-space! It does not need to live in the kernel. Sincerely, Lars Marowsky-Brée -- SuSE Labs - Research & Development, SuSE Linux AG "If anything can go wrong, it will." "Chance favors the prepared (mind)." -- Capt. Edward A. Murphy -- Louis Pasteur