As soon as I get a new toy from an unnamed company, Linux may have a
screamer of FC with access to 4K of devices. The proposed stock kernel
driver will grant 256 devices; however, the product uses some trade secret
to get 4K of devices. Once introduced, it is projected that the extended
API for the 4K device access code should be GPLed 12 to 18 months after
kernel introduction.
If you have an interest in this kind of support and goodies, send me a
blurb and I will forward it to the vender to try and get things into fast
forward say 2.4 kernel........very long shot.....but I have a dead eye.
Andre Hedrick
The Linux IDE guy
On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, [iso-8859-1] Magnus Näslund(b) wrote:
> Hello, i'm working on a project that includes a large amount of image files.
> There will be around 15 million files around 100Kb ~= 1.5TB.
> I am looking for cheap but _reliable_ ways of achieving this.
> I hear that FibreChannel supports up to 128 devices, does anyone know if
> that really works?
> And if it does what cards are there for Linux, and which is the moste stable
> that works for alpha?
> Is it possible to soft-raid say 30 50gb drives to get the storage in
> question?
> Or is there an limit on soft-raided disks?
> Will the performance be within reasonable speeds?
>
> Any help, experiance, or ideas/solutions are super-welcome!!!
>
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