Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Jul 1999 07:45:50 -0500 | From | Ron Flory <> | Subject | Re: Hot Swap/Fail Over/ and Compact PCI Support |
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Benjamin Scherrey wrote: > > My company is developing a critical telephony system and are looking > for the opportunity to deploy on Intel/Linux (as well as > Sparc/Solaris). I've found some SPARC and Intel platforms > (surprisingly one from Motorola!) that have these hot swap > capabilities under Compact PCI, but I'm having a more difficult time > getting hard information about Linux support for such things, > especially in terms of hot swap cpus rather than just devices. I've > heard of a hig-availability linux implementation called Hard Hat and > other efforts in the works to provide this capability at both the > kernel and application level but I haven't been able to find any hard > information about these rumoured systems. > > Is there an official kernel effort going on to support these features? > How about a semi-official one? I'd appreciate any comments and > pointers regarding this...
Most RAID cards that run under Linux have this capability 'built-in'. We are using one from ICP-Vortex. The hot-swap/reconstruction features work fine-
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