Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Apr 2003 16:18:43 -0700 | From | Joel Becker <> | Subject | Re: [patch for playing] Patch to support 4000 disks and maintain |
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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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