Re: AoE - ATA over Ethernet - comments?

[email protected] wrote:

> - AoE is a very simple protocol - perhaps much simpler than NBD - perhaps 
> too simple for your needs?
Since it is not tcp/ip- (and port-) based, can you "publish" multiple 
devices? (e.g. compared to (e)nbd, where you have to run a dedicated 
server process for each device)
And what about the integration part, does it rely on userspace tools? We 
are using an initrd image over here which cares about starting the 
nbd-client, mounting /dev/nb0 as root device etc.
This kind of setup requires some changes to the standard (debian-) 
system, because you need a patched version of killall5. Otherwise our 
nbd-client process will get killed during shutdown/reboot by 
/etc/init.d/sendsignals, leading to a system crash because the root 
device disappears before init has finished calling the shutdown scripts
To make things easier and to avoid those nasty work-arounds it would be 
nice to look at something in-kernel-like (but nfs is definatly not an 
option).


-- 
Mit freundlichen Gruessen / with kind regards
  Rudolph Bott

-------------------------------------------------------------------
Megabit Informationstechnik GmbH  Karstr.25  41068 Moenchengladbach
Tel: 02161/308980   mailto:[email protected]       ftp://megabit.net
Fax: 02161/3089818  mailto:[email protected]   http://megabit.net
-------------------------------------------------------------------