From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Christopher R. Hertel" Subject: Re: [LSF/MM TOPIC][ATTEND] linux servers as a storage server - what's missing? Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:09:56 -0600 Message-ID: <4F207DB4.50804@samba.org> References: <4EF2026F.2090506@redhat.com> <20120103142609.2b4d06cb@tlielax.poochiereds.net> <20120124213609.GA12426@fieldses.org> <4F1F3B00.8060603@redhat.com> <4F206543.60309@samba.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Ric Wheeler , "J. Bruce Fields" , Jeff Layton , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, "linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" , Jeremy Allison , Simo Sorce To: Roland Dreier Return-path: Received: from qmta03.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.32]:53254 "EHLO qmta03.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750873Ab2AYWJ7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:09:59 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Roland Dreier wrote: > On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Christopher R. Hertel 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 -)----- -- "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