Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 19:19:23 +0000 From: Pete French <pfrench@firstcallgroup.co.uk> To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG, syjef@mdanderson.org Subject: Re: Fibrechannel support in 4.9 ? Message-ID: <E1AK0WR-0000sc-00@mailhost.firstcallgroup.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200311121157.41653.syjef@mdanderson.org>
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> Welcome to the world of SAN. :) Someone else has already provided > FreeBSD-specific info, here's a few other pieces of the puzzle for you. In > attaching a FC RAID array you will be creating a small point-to-point fibre > channel network (a small SAN). Internally the array is probably O.K. - is that going to be affected by the fact that there will be a number of other machines also attached to the array ? Got 2 BSD machines for starters and possibly 5 windows machines. I am unsure of FC topology - will all of them be point-ot-point into the array ? > arbitrated-loop, but that should not be a concern to you. Fibre Channel is a Makes mental note to go research arbitrated-lopp vs point-to-point! Does this affect the kind of card I acquire ? Will all of them boot fine ? > networking architecture that allows transport of other protocols, usually > SCSI (FCP). Curtis Preston's _Introduction to SAN and NAS_ (published by O.K., that helps a lot - if its just acting as an alternative SCSI transport as far as th OS ins concerend then that makes me a lot happier. Thanks for the advice. -pcf.
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