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From: "Christopher R. Hertel" <crh@samba.org>
To: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
Cc: Ric Wheeler <rwheeler@redhat.com>,
	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>,
	Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	"linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>, Simo Sorce <simo@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [LSF/MM TOPIC][ATTEND] linux servers as a storage server - what's missing?
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:09:56 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F207DB4.50804@samba.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAL1RGDWxbYHQdFOxAfEWSxxjQKjQgsPgVAGYrZL4NrsB2apKzw@mail.gmail.com>

Roland Dreier wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Christopher R. Hertel <crh@samba.org> wrote:
>> 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 -)-----

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Samba Team -- http://www.samba.org/     -)-----   Christopher R. Hertel
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  reply	other threads:[~2012-01-25 22:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-21 15:59 [LSF/MM TOPIC] linux servers as a storage server - what's missing? Ric Wheeler
2011-12-22  8:14 ` Shyam_Iyer
2011-12-22  8:14   ` Shyam_Iyer
2011-12-22 15:58   ` Vivek Goyal
2011-12-22 20:54     ` Shyam_Iyer
2011-12-22 20:54       ` Shyam_Iyer
2011-12-23  3:06       ` Vivek Goyal
2011-12-23  4:35         ` Shyam_Iyer
2011-12-23  4:35           ` Shyam_Iyer
2012-01-09 12:18       ` Hannes Reinecke
2012-01-09 12:59         ` Tom Coughlan
2012-01-10  6:53           ` Ric Wheeler
2012-01-20  8:55             ` Hannes Reinecke
2012-01-19 16:17           ` [LSF/MM TOPIC] linux servers as a storage server - what'smissing? Loke, Chetan
2012-01-19 16:17             ` Loke, Chetan
2012-01-19 16:19             ` Ric Wheeler
2012-01-19 16:26               ` Loke, Chetan
2012-01-19 16:26                 ` Loke, Chetan
2012-01-19 16:29                 ` Ric Wheeler
2012-01-19 17:32                   ` Loke, Chetan
2012-01-19 17:32                     ` Loke, Chetan
2012-01-19 17:44                     ` Ric Wheeler
2012-01-19 21:30                       ` Loke, Chetan
2012-01-19 21:30                         ` Loke, Chetan
2012-01-19 21:39                         ` Ric Wheeler
2012-01-24 17:05                           ` Loke, Chetan
2012-01-24 17:05                             ` Loke, Chetan
2012-01-24 18:13                             ` Ric Wheeler
2012-01-26 22:24                             ` Dave Chinner
2012-01-26 22:29                               ` Ric Wheeler
2012-01-03 19:26 ` [LSF/MM TOPIC][ATTEND] linux servers as a storage server - what's missing? Jeff Layton
2012-01-03 19:32   ` Chuck Lever
2012-01-17 21:16     ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-01-17 21:25       ` Chuck Lever
2012-01-24 21:36   ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-01-24 23:13     ` Ric Wheeler
2012-01-25 19:05       ` Christopher R. Hertel
2012-01-25 20:25       ` Christopher R. Hertel
2012-01-25 21:56         ` Roland Dreier
2012-01-25 22:09           ` Christopher R. Hertel [this message]
2012-01-26 21:52             ` Andy Grover
2012-01-26 11:15         ` Bart Van Assche
2012-01-18 17:00 ` [LSF/MM TOPIC] " Roland Dreier
2012-01-18 17:51   ` Ric Wheeler
2012-01-18 18:46     ` Roland Dreier
2012-01-18 18:51       ` Bart Van Assche
2012-01-18 19:00         ` Roland Dreier
2012-01-19  8:16         ` Rolf Eike Beer
2012-01-19 17:50       ` Loke, Chetan
2012-01-19 17:50         ` Loke, Chetan

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