Re: Hot Swap/Fail Over/ and Compact PCI Support
Ron Flory (rjflory@feist.com)
Wed, 14 Jul 1999 07:45:50 -0500
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-
ron
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