Can FreeBSD handle redundant SAS controllers?

Andy Young ayoung at mosaicarchive.com
Mon Sep 10 16:41:15 UTC 2012


Thanks Ivan. I will check it out.

Andy

On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 6:04 AM, Ivan Voras <ivoras at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 07/09/2012 16:53, Andy Young wrote:
> > I'm having trouble finding information about this on the web. I have a
> SAS
> > backplane with redundant expanders designed so you can use redundant SAS
> > controllers. Seems obvious to me that the drivers need to support two
> cards
> > pointing to the same drives. Does this work in FreeBSD? Does it matter
> > which HBAs I buy?
>
> The closest thing to what you want is gmultipath:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?gmultipath
>
>


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