From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andy Grover Subject: Re: [LSF/MM TOPIC][ATTEND] linux servers as a storage server - what's missing? Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:52:17 -0800 Message-ID: <4F21CB11.7080205@redhat.com> References: <4EF2026F.2090506@redhat.com> <20120103142609.2b4d06cb@tlielax.poochiereds.net> <20120124213609.GA12426@fieldses.org> <4F1F3B00.8060603@redhat.com> <4F206543.60309@samba.org> <4F207DB4.50804@samba.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Roland Dreier , Ric Wheeler , "J. Bruce Fields" , Jeff Layton , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, "linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" , Jeremy Allison , Simo Sorce To: "Christopher R. Hertel" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4F207DB4.50804@samba.org> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.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 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