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

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On 01/25/2012 02:09 PM, Christopher R. Hertel wrote:
> 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.

If you're talking about the kernel target stuff, you need to do the
FCoE-specific setup using the same fcoe tools, and then configure the
kernel target via configfs, so that's probably going to be a little
different.

Regards -- Andy
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