[Practices] Re: CentOS and SANs

[alex at milivojevic.org (Aleksandar Milivojevic)]

Bryan J. Smith wrote:

>   Fibre-Channel Arbitrated-Loop (FC-AL)

Any special reason for not going with fabric topology?  I remember 
having Red Hat 7.x servers with Qlogic HBAs years ago working perfectly 
in fabric topology.  Also, some swtiches (Brocade for example) can 
emulate loop for devices that don't support fabric directly.