KernelTrap: Fibre Channel Status

"Christoph Hellwig provided an update on the status of Fibre Channel support for the 2.6 kernel, noting that after a planned merge of the SCSI development branch following the upcoming release of 2.6.12, 'Linux will have more advanced Fibre Channel support than any currently available operating system.' He goes on to explain, 'the new Fibre Channel (FC) transport class offers two major advantages over traditional standalone drivers,' listing an easy to use library and a common userspace interface..."

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