Project Number: MLC-RL98
 
 

Development of a CLARiiON
Fibre Channel Device Driver for Linux
 

A Major Qualifying Project
 

submitted to the Faculty
 

of
 

WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE
 

in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the
 

Degree of Bachelor of Science
 

by  
 

                                    
Charles Anderson
 
                                    
Frank Sweetser
 
May 4, 1999
 
Approved:
 
 

	1. Linux
	2. Fibre Channel		Professor Mark Claypool
	3. RAID

Abstract:

Modern applications, such as high-end databases and multimedia applications, are placing higher bandwidth demands on storage devices. Currently, the best choice for both performance and reliability is a Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks (RAID). CLARiiON, one of the leading developers of high-end RAID devices, is seeking to deploy Linux on their servers as an alternative to DG/UX, their in-house version of UNIX. In this project we have begun to implement a Fibre Channel RAID driver for Linux.