>
> Mark Veteikis wrote:
> > It points out the lack of Fibre Channel maturity (drivers) in Linux and some
> > shortcomings in the SCSI mid-layer support for FC.
>
> The shortcomings that I'm aware of:
>
> a) Limited # of SCSI storage devices that can be attached to a Linux
> box,
The author referred to some specifics such as WWN mapping and dynamic
insertion/removal of devices and the management of these devices. I tend
agree with him on those points.
Also, you can get around this with configuring the "max_id" parameter in the
Scsi_Host structure upwards, at driver initialization time. I've
tested with up to 40 FC drives.
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