> what logic do you use to identify "identical devices"?
> same data reported from SCSI Report_LUNs? or perhaps the same data
> reported from a SCSI_Inquiry?
That would work well.
We do parse device specific information in order to auto-configure the md
multipath at setup time. After that, magic is on disk...
> does one now need to add logic into the kernel to provide some multipathing
> for HDS disks?
Topology discovery is user-space! It does not need to live in the kernel.
Sincerely,
Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@suse.de>
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