Basically, I'm looking to do some type of configuration which will allow
me to place many hosts on a single shared scsi chain under Linux. Is this
even possible? Most tell me that the hardware is available using FC hubs
or switches with the Qlogic fibre channel cards, but Linux isn't ready for
it. Qlogic cards work, but the driver isn't smart enough to control a
fibre channel switch.
I was talking with the GFS project guys, and basically I could probable do
it with about 3 - 5 client machines, but I need something that will work
with like 20 client machines. They basically didn't want to see me spend
a ton of money on something they has no reason to actually work.
Is there anything available to do this that will work with Linux?
My main goal to the eliminate the need for nfs. Nfs has been our single
highest point of failure. 2.2.x kernel appears to still need much work
with nfs, even though the latest ac patches on 2.2.2 seem to improve
things greatly. Unfortunately, I jumped into 2.2.x like a day after it
was release and now we have 10 production level machines running it. My
fault, but the Linux nerd in me won the battle and now we're stuck.
I'm looking for options to better our performance, that all, and it seems
that trying to eliminate nfs would help achieve that goal.
Thanks
-jeremy
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