Re: [LSF/MM TOPIC][ATTEND] linux servers as a storage server - what's missing?
From: Christopher R. Hertel <hidden>
Date: 2012-01-25 22:09:59
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Roland Dreier wrote:
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Christopher R. Hertel [off-list ref] wrote:quoted
Can we put FibreChannel HBAs in *target* mode into a Linux-based PC and export LUNs via FibreChannel? - Do we support multipath in this configuration? - Zoning? Muli-access LUNs for Clustering?Yes to everything, although the low-level FC driver patches are not quite upstream yet.
Cool! Thanks for the update. I assume that the management API for this is similar to or the same as the FCoE API? That would make it easier to produce a consistent look-and-feel in whatever end-user management tools a third-party my create. Chris -)----- -- "Implementing CIFS - the Common Internet FileSystem" ISBN: 013047116X Samba Team -- http://www.samba.org/ -)----- Christopher R. Hertel jCIFS Team -- http://jcifs.samba.org/ -)----- ubiqx development, uninq. ubiqx Team -- http://www.ubiqx.org/ -)----- crh@ubiqx.mn.org OnLineBook -- http://ubiqx.org/cifs/ -)----- crh@ubiqx.org