[Linux-cluster] GFS, iSCSI, multipaths and RAID

Subhendu Ghosh sghosh at redhat.com
Thu May 29 15:42:22 UTC 2008


>> If you bond between two different switches, you'll only be able to do
>> failover between the NICs.  If you use multipath, you can round-robin
>> between them to provide a greater bandwidth overhead.
> 
> Same goes for bonding: link aggregation with active-active bonding.
> 

active-active bonding across two network switches is just bad. Spanning Tree 
does not like it.

-Subhendu





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