[dm-devel] 2.6.10-rc1-udm1: multipath work in progress

Alasdair G Kergon agk at redhat.com
Tue Nov 2 16:48:03 UTC 2004


On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 05:17:24PM +0100, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
> Makes at least sense for the dm-hw-handler, but the path-selector may
> have some good reasons for keeping some data on a per-path basis.
 
The path selector abstractions are a bit confused but workable.
(whether a path is active or not may be stored in 2 places 
independently, which I don't like)

I'd like to see more examples of what people want to use them for.
[So far, blind round robin + load-balancing by peeking at 
device queues.]

Alasdair
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