From: Andy Grover <agrover@redhat.com>
To: "Christopher R. Hertel" <crh@samba.org>
Cc: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>,
Ric Wheeler <rwheeler@redhat.com>,
"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>,
Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
"linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>, Simo Sorce <simo@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [LSF/MM TOPIC][ATTEND] linux servers as a storage server - what's missing?
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:52:17 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F21CB11.7080205@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F207DB4.50804@samba.org>
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@samba.org> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-26 21:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-21 15:59 [LSF/MM TOPIC] linux servers as a storage server - what's missing? Ric Wheeler
2011-12-22 8:14 ` Shyam_Iyer
2011-12-22 15:58 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-12-22 20:54 ` Shyam_Iyer
2011-12-23 3:06 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-12-23 4:35 ` Shyam_Iyer
2012-01-09 12:18 ` Hannes Reinecke
2012-01-09 12:59 ` Tom Coughlan
2012-01-10 6:53 ` Ric Wheeler
2012-01-20 8:55 ` Hannes Reinecke
2012-01-19 16:17 ` [LSF/MM TOPIC] linux servers as a storage server - what'smissing? Loke, Chetan
2012-01-19 16:19 ` Ric Wheeler
2012-01-19 16:26 ` Loke, Chetan
2012-01-19 16:29 ` Ric Wheeler
2012-01-19 17:32 ` Loke, Chetan
2012-01-19 17:44 ` Ric Wheeler
2012-01-19 21:30 ` Loke, Chetan
2012-01-19 21:39 ` Ric Wheeler
2012-01-24 17:05 ` Loke, Chetan
2012-01-24 18:13 ` Ric Wheeler
2012-01-26 22:24 ` Dave Chinner
2012-01-26 22:29 ` Ric Wheeler
2012-01-03 19:26 ` [LSF/MM TOPIC][ATTEND] linux servers as a storage server - what's missing? Jeff Layton
2012-01-03 19:32 ` Chuck Lever
2012-01-17 21:16 ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-01-17 21:25 ` Chuck Lever
2012-01-24 21:36 ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-01-24 23:13 ` Ric Wheeler
2012-01-25 19:05 ` Christopher R. Hertel
2012-01-25 20:25 ` Christopher R. Hertel
2012-01-25 21:56 ` Roland Dreier
2012-01-25 22:09 ` Christopher R. Hertel
2012-01-26 21:52 ` Andy Grover [this message]
2012-01-26 11:15 ` Bart Van Assche
2012-01-18 17:00 ` [LSF/MM TOPIC] " Roland Dreier
2012-01-18 17:51 ` Ric Wheeler
2012-01-18 18:46 ` Roland Dreier
2012-01-18 18:51 ` Bart Van Assche
2012-01-18 19:00 ` Roland Dreier
2012-01-19 8:16 ` Rolf Eike Beer
2012-01-19 17:50 ` Loke, Chetan
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