Re: RFC: configuration file for storing persistent FCoE information

[Bill Nottingham <notting redhat com>]

Hans de Goede (hdegoede redhat com) said: 
> When using FCoE, and it is not used for /
> (when it is used for / this becomes the initrd's problem),
> then rc.sysinit needs to bring up the FCoE fabric, in
> order to do this rc.sysinit needs to know:
>
> 1) That FCoE is being used
> 2) Which NIC is connected to the FCoE SAN.
>
>
> So we will need a config file for this. I can imagine
> using /etc/sysconfig/fcoe
>
> With a single line in there like:
> NIC=eth0

Stepping back a bit... why does it need to know the device
name - can't it be automatically determined via route?

Bill