Take a look at:

http://opensolaris.org/os/project/comstar/

Richard L. Hamilton wrote:
> I gather that at least some Qlogic FC adaptors can function as target as well 
> as initiator.
> (from something I saw at openfiler.com, I think)
> 
> This suggests to me that from a hardware standpoint, nothing would preclude a 
> SATA JBOD
> running (Open)Solaris, and serving out zfs logical volumes (out of zpools of 
> suitable redundancy)
> over the Fibre Channel.
> 
> Is there any prospect of a driver and daemon that could support such an 
> arrangement?
> 
> After all, if Sun's server and storage units are merging, why not consider a 
> relatively low
> power and cost SAN storage server?
> 
> Or is iSCSI likely to be the way to go, given 10Gb Ethernet, lower-cost 
> networking hardware,
> and more familiar network management?
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