Nothing Like The SAN
a fabric tale about channels

Table of contents

• SAN - The (not so) Little Network That Could...
• What's In A SAN?
  • Why Use SANs?
  • A Little About SCSI
  • The SCSI Architecture
  • SCSI Commands
  • An Example - The SCSI Inquiry Command
  • A Little About Fiber-Channel
  • Fiber-Channel Terminology
  • More Fiber-Channel Terminology
  • About RAIDs
  • SAN Virtualization
• Linux, SCSI and SANs
  • The Linux SCSI Sub-System
  • SCSI Drivers Loading Order
  • Looking At SCSI "things" - /proc/scsi
  • Looking At SCSI "things" - /proc/sg/
  • Looking At SCSI "things" - /sys/class/scsi/
  • Linux HBA Drivers
  • Linux And SCSI Hotplug
  • Linux Hotplug And Fiber-Channel
  • Two Words About LVM
  • Two Words About LVM And SANs
• References

Originally written by guy keren