On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 12:41:10AM -0800, Tracy R Reed wrote:
> It's a journalled and fault tolerant filesystem. If a machine in the cluster
> goes down, no problem. With well supported and relatively inexpensive Qlogic
> fibrechannel cards and fibrechannel disks costing only slightly more than SCSI
> disks (I think, I've never really priced them individually) this seems quite
> viable. I encourage all of you to check out:
The big expense when running fibre channel is not the HBA's or the disks.
It's the fibre channel switches. We priced out a four port fibrechannel
switch at $15,000 a few months ago.
--Adam
