Re: [LSF/MM TOPIC][ATTEND] linux servers as a storage server - what's missing?

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