Subject: Re: have scsibus sleep only one time
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/11/2003 09:25:06
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 01:31:30AM +0100, Christoph Badura wrote:
> > Actually, what business do we have resetting the SCSI busses?
> >
> > 1) this wreaks havoc with scsibusses with multiple initiators on the bus
> > (vulgo: HA clusters). We'll have to deal with that anyway at one point.
>
> Other HBAs on the bus should also be able to deal with a reset
I think the point is what if the other initiator is in the middle of a
transaction? i.e. we'er the main server rebooting, and failover has
already happened. In that case, it's rude to just reset the bus.
Take care,
Bill