gmultipath: act/act, path checking?

Alexander Motin mav at FreeBSD.org
Wed Oct 26 17:04:52 UTC 2011


Hi.

On 26.10.2011 12:09, Dennis Koegel wrote:
> are there any plans to have gmultipath support for active/active?
> 
> Also, is there any way to check available paths periodically? As far as
> I unterstand, once gmultipath kicks a certain path due to failure, it
> will never come back automatically. (And it won't ever be used if it
> isn't working at boot time)

I haven't tested it, but if gmultipath behaves same as other GEOM
classes with on-disk metadata, new paths should be connected
automatically when detected. Boot time in GEOM is not different from
later operation.

-- 
Alexander Motin


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