Re: a vote for asymmetric connections in a session

[Stephen Bailey <steph@cs.uchicago.edu>]

> Unlike iSCSI, FCP has the benefit of operating in a low latency
> environment (<10us).

Not all FCP has latency this low.  I've seen disaster tolerant FC-AL
configurations with 40 KM hops, which is about 140 us in transit time 
alone, plus the big elasticity buffers.

It IS possible to bury an FCP box with just commands in flight from
multiple initiators.  This is a known problem for FCP too.

Steph