Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 6 Dec 2004 11:10:24 -0600 (CST) | From | Adam Heath <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ATA over Ethernet driver for 2.6.9 |
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On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Ed L Cashin wrote:
> Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> writes: > > > On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Ed L Cashin wrote: > > > >> The included patch allows the Linux kernel to use the ATA over > >> Ethernet (AoE) network protocol to communicate with any block device > >> that handles the AoE protocol. The Coraid EtherDrive (R) Storage > >> Blade is the first hardware using AoE. > >> > >> AoE devices on the LAN are accessable as block devices and can be used > >> with filesystems, Software RAID, LVM, etc. > >> > >> Like IP, AoE is an ethernet-level network protocol, registered with > >> the IEEE. Unlike IP, AoE is not routable. > >> > >> This patch is released under the terms of the GPL. > >> > >> (We also have an AoE driver for the 2.4 kernel that we plan to release > >> soon.) > > > > Is there a free server for this? > > Are you asking whether anybody has written software that allows a > network host to export block storage using AoE? Not yet, as far as I > know.
Yup, that's what I was asking. Bummer. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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