Design and Implementation of a Fibre Channel Network Driver for SAN-Attached RAID Controllers
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Fibre Channel SAN is considered to be a promising solution to address storage problems caused by the sheer volume of data and their management. To adopt this new storage environment, we design and implement a high performance Fibre Channel network driver for SAN-attached RAID controllers in a real-time operating system. This paper describes the architecture of the Fibre Channel driver which consists of two modes: a target mode and an initiator mode. An exception handling mechanism for enduring a disk failure is also given. Lastly, we measured the performance of the Fibre Channel drivel: Testing results reveal a moderately successfill pe$ormance of the Fibre Channel drivel:
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