> > True, a single front-end won't see all of those LUNs/devices. So not > a > > big concern > > about the front-end hosts. > > > > I am thinking of a use-case where folks can use a linux-box to manage > > their different storage arrays. > > So this linux box with 'libstoragemgmt + app' needs to > > manage(scan/create/delete/so on) all those LUNs. > > > > People do have boxes with thousands of luns though & file systems in > active use. > Both for SAN and NAS volumes. > > One of the challenges is what to do when just one LUN (or NFS server) > crashes > and burns. The FS needs to go read-only(plain & simple) because you don't know what's going on. You can't risk writing data anymore. Let the apps fail. You can make it happen even today. It's a simple exercise. Like others, I have seen/debugged enough weirdness when it comes to resets/aborts(FYI - 200+ hosts in a cluster). Because of NDA reasons I can't disclose a whole lot but folks have fixed/enhanced scsi stack to make resets/aborts fully robust. And you need folks who can debug 'apps/FS/block/initiator/wire-protocol/target-side' in one shot. Simple. So when you say 'crash & burn' then either or 'all' of the above(minus the protocol handling) might need fixing. > You simply cannot "reboot" the server to clean up after one > bad mount when you have thousands of other happy users runs on thousands/hundreds > of other mount points :) Again, can't front-end can go read only and limit the outage w/o disturbing thousands of users? Chetan Loke -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
