Re: [PATCH] make fc transport removal of target configurable

Steve Byan
2006-06-13T19:49:41Z

On Jun 13, 2006, at 3:35 PM, Michael Reed wrote:

>
>
> Steve Byan wrote:
>> On Jun 13, 2006, at 11:42 AM, Michael Reed wrote:
>>
>>> Treating fibre channel like removable storage is wrong. Fibre
>>> targets aren't
>>> generally supposed to go away. If they do, there's a significant
>>> chance
>>> that they'll be repaired and returned to service. It makes sense
>>> to keep
>>> the infrastructure in place just like scsi, sas, iscsi, ata.
>>
>> In both Fibre Channel SANs and iSCSI SANs, administrators in large
>> datacenters will re-zone devices with some regularity as they
>> redeploy applications among existing systems.
>
> Yes, they will. And don't they generally do this gracefully, i.e,
> shut down access to file systems or devices before rezoning? And when
> the target is rezoned to the host again don't they expect to be able
> to resume using it. This patch allows that to happen with no
> user intervention.

Ah, I see now. Yes, I think the behavior you are after is the correct
one. Sorry, I didn't understand the details before chiming in.

Regards,
-Steve
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