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RE: Path failover with xfs on linux

To: "Christian, Chip" <chip.christian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: Path failover with xfs on linux
From: Austin Gonyou <austin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 01:29:24 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: "'Steve Lord'" <lord@xxxxxxx>, "Coumoul, Philippe" <coumop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "'linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx'" <linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Whoa, it does have that? Well shut my mouth. :) What's the driver named?

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Austin Gonyou
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Coremetrics, Inc.
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On Thu, 31 May 2001, Christian, Chip wrote:

> RedHat 7.1 has a multipath block driver that has worked well in our testing.  
> We put XFS on top.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Lord [mailto:lord@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 13:19
> To: Coumoul, Philippe
> Cc: 'linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: Re: Path failover with xfs on linux
>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I m looking for a path failover software solution to secure acces from Red
> > Hat 7.x server to an external Raid Storage Subsystem.
> > I ve seen that there is not XLV on XFS for Linux, but is there a failover
> > possibility without XLV ?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Phil
>
> This question might be better directed at the linux kernel list, hardware
> failover is usually invisible to the filesystem, being handled at the
> block layer. SGI does have ports of some of the Irix SCSI code which
> includes failover capability for certain device types, but I cannot
> say when or how this would be available.
>
> Steve
>


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