[3050] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: Dual-hosting SCSI and failure modes (was Re: RAID & unhappy scsi driver)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Youngdale)
Wed Jan 7 07:58:11 1998
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 08:06:41 -0500 (EST)
From: Eric Youngdale <eric@andante.jic.com>
To: Andy Poling <andy@globalauctions.com>
cc: linas@linas.org, linux-raid@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980105225109.16349F-100000@roadrunner.realbig.com>
"The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep,
And lines to code before I sleep, And lines to code before I sleep."
On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Andy Poling wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Jan 1998 linas@linas.org wrote:
> If you ask me, a bigger problem for recovery after a failed drive is the
> current device naming scheme that could potentially result in *all* of the
> remaining disks having different names after one is no longer available
> (presently hot swapped out, powered down or otherwise totally unresponsive).
>
> It's this sort of thing that keeps _me_ awake at night...
Once things with the new error recovery code seems to have settled
down, the naming and minor number issues are the next thing I need to
tackle.
-Eric
