FYI. SNIA is the same group who defined the DDF spec. -Matt -- Matt Domsch Sr. Software Engineer, Lead Engineer Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com ----- Forwarded message from Arnold Jones <td@xxxxxxxx> ----- Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 17:35:04 -0400 From: Arnold Jones <td@xxxxxxxx> Reply-To: Arnold Jones <td@xxxxxxxx> Organization: SNIA To: members@xxxxxxxx Subject: UPDATE: SNIA Multipath Management API Public Review SNIA Members, ** PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO YOUR ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT ** The SNIA OS-Attach Workgroup, a sub-group of the Disk Resource Management (DRM) Technical Work Group, has created and reviewed the Multipath Management API Specification and would like review feedback from a wider community. This API allows a management application to discover the multipath devices on the current system and to discover the associated local and device ports. An implementation of the API may optionally include active management (failover, load balancing, manual path overrides). The API uses an architecture that allows multiple MP drivers installed on a system to each provide plugins to a common library. The plugins can support multipath drivers bundled with an OS, or drivers associated with an HBA, target device, or volume manager. This API can be used by host-based management applications and will also be included in the SMI-S Host Discovered Resources Profile for enterprise-wide multipath discovery and management. The DRAFT document is available at: http://www.snia.org/tech_activities/publicreview/ This review ends 11/19/2004. Please send comments to the OS-Attach SNIA workgroup os-attach@xxxxxxxxx NOTE: This review is not limited to SNIA Members and is open to the general public, therefore feel free forward this message to anyone outside of the SNIA. If you have any questions please contact me at td@xxxxxxxx Thanks ... - Arnold --- Arnold Jones Technical Director Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) td@xxxxxxxx 407-679-8232