Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932166AbWBOTQn (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Feb 2006 14:16:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932167AbWBOTQn (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Feb 2006 14:16:43 -0500 Received: from sp-260-1.net4.netcentrix.net ([4.21.254.118]:57604 "EHLO asmodeus.mcnaught.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932166AbWBOTQm (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Feb 2006 14:16:42 -0500 To: Rob Landley Cc: Lennart Sorensen , Matthias Andree , Linux-Kernel mailing list Subject: Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) References: <5a2cf1f60602130407j79805b8al55fe999426d90b97@mail.gmail.com> <200602142155.03407.rob@landley.net> <20060215183115.GE29940@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <200602151409.41523.rob@landley.net> From: Doug McNaught Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 14:16:36 -0500 In-Reply-To: <200602151409.41523.rob@landley.net> (Rob Landley's message of "Wed, 15 Feb 2006 14:09:41 -0500") Message-ID: <87k6bwl9ez.fsf@asmodeus.mcnaught.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 687 Lines: 19 Rob Landley writes: > On Wednesday 15 February 2006 1:31 pm, Lennart Sorensen wrote: >> once. > > Yup. Apparently with SAS, the controllers are far more likely to fail than > the drives. I think the actual idea (or one of them) is to have two machines connected to each drive, in a hot-standby configuration. This has been done for a long time with parallel SCSI, where both machines have controllers on the bus. -Doug - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/