On 2003-07-18T12:23:04,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> said:
> - the driver still has multipath support in the lowlevel driver which
> we don't want in Linux
Fully agreed.
Please come and attend the multipath session at the Kernel Summit and/or
the Ottawa Linux Symposium next week to learn why this is a bad idea and
how it can be done better -> http://www.linuxsymposium.org/
However, for backwards compatibility with 2.4, I assume it might still
be needed in 2.5/2.6, but _only_ with the clear intend of phasing it out
within 2.6 and dropping it in 2.7.
QLogic is reasonably good already in that it can be disabled via a
module parameter (ql2xfailover=0), allowing the higher level solutions
to operate.
Sincerely,
Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@suse.de>
-- 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
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