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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Egenera, Inc.
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Marlboro, MA 01752
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