Re: FreeBSD on IBM blade servers

From: Matthew Jacob <lydianconcepts_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 19:53:33 -0700
I'm catching, as usual, the tail end of all such discussions, but if this is
yet another discussion about multipathing, well, FreeBSD doesn't *do*
multipathing yet (to my knowledge), and it's going to take a bit more than
just fooling around with CAM or an HBA driver to make it work at a
commercial grade level.

On 10/27/05, Rainer Duffner <rainer_at_ultra-secure.de> wrote:
>
> Wilko Bulte wrote:
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> >
> >
> >Maybe you can zone the fabric such that the HBA only sees one path to the
> >storage?
> >
> >
>
>
> I don't know if that is possible - it also totally defeats the purpose.
> We didn't buy the infrastructure twice (more or less) just to leave one
> half of it unused.
>
>
> >>Also, when I ran 5.4 on out BL20 blades, it liked to panic while
> >>rescanning the SCSI-bus (after adding some space to a LUN).
> >>
> >>
> >
> >THat is one of the things I still have to try, FreeBSD on our BL20pG2
> >
> >
>
>
> I'll try 6.0 when I have some time.
>
>
>
> Rainer
>
>
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