Re: Status of qlogic tcp/ip (fc0) support

[Fabien Salvi <fabien@cri74.org>]

r35157anc3 a écrit:
> I've isolated myself from the SAN network and I'm operating in my own 
> private subnet. It's just my server, the FC controller, and a hard drive 
> connected to the controller.
> 
> I want to connect to devices interfaced with the FC over IP. I have a 
> hard drive interfaced with a qla 2300 controller. Now that I have the FC 
> setup for IP, how would I mount that disk?
> 
> Perhaps I'm going about this all wrong though. 

Yes !
You can't mount devices using IP over FC.
You can only access other FC nodes (essentially servers) that also have 
IP over FC activated.
It could be useful for example to share storage over NFS in a cluster 
connected to the same SAN, because there are not many Shared FileSystem 
(except GFS but it's no longer GPL...).

> I always thought IP was 
> an alternative to SCSI for FC. Usually, I mount my SCSI devices. If I'm 
> not going to use SCSI, then how do I use it if not by mounting?

No, you won't be able to mount your SCSI devices.
If you want to this, use SCSI over FC, it's the traditionnal way to do it.
You *really* have no interest, even it would be possible, to use IP to 
mount SCSI devices...


-- 
Fabien SALVI

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