Just a question on connecting my Fiber Channel Storage to a linux server via an HBA. I am wondering what I need to do after I have connected my DAS to the linux server. Where will I be able to see the RAID LUNs? What should I do? How to format the LUNs? Problem is I don't have a very sound base of linux and need to do this myself
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FC DAS in Linux
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hmmm... if your hba has the driver correctly installed, you should be able the use the LUNs provided by the storage array. You can issue "dmesg" in your linux box in order to see the devices for the luns (may be /dev/sga or /dev/sda, etc).
with this information you must partition the LUN:
fdisk /dev/sda
man fdisk create partitions acording to your needs.
then create the filesystems:
mkfs -t ext2 /dev/sda1 (the 1 is for partition 1)
and then add the journal to the filesystem:
tune2fs -j /dev/sda1
then mount it:
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/point
Cheers.
with this information you must partition the LUN:
fdisk /dev/sda
man fdisk create partitions acording to your needs.
then create the filesystems:
mkfs -t ext2 /dev/sda1 (the 1 is for partition 1)
and then add the journal to the filesystem:
tune2fs -j /dev/sda1
then mount it:
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/point
Cheers.
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