Messages in this thread | | | From | "roland" <> | Subject | [ANNOUNCE][RFC] kvblade-alpha-2 / ATA Over Ethernet kernel "target" module | Date | Thu, 24 Aug 2006 20:46:43 +0200 |
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Hello !
If you don`t know about AoE and being interested in network-based Storage/SAN technology, you may take a look at http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8149 first. This article gives a nice introduction into AoE technology.
Kvblade is the kernel-based equivalent of (userspace)vblade and also a second approach (there is another at http://lpk.com.price.ru/~lelik/AoE/) to build an kernel-based AoE "target" (a vblade in AoE terminology is similar to iscsi-target or nbd-server, exporting a block-device over the network, but working on ethernet-layer instead of TCP/IP)
Kvblade is counterpart to the AoE driver which is in 2.6 for some time now and it basically does in software, what "Coraid EtherDrive® Storage" does in hardware.
Kvblade is now part of the aoetools project at http://aoetools.sourceforge.net . It`s at an early alpha stage and the initial creator, Sam Hopkins from Coraid just decided to release it to the public due to lack of time working further on this.
Unfortunately i`m no kernel hacker, but maybe there is someone who likes to give it a try, make a little code-review, pick it up and contribute or even rewrite it from scratch. :)
regards Roland Kletzing (sysadmin/engineer, independent linux enthusiast, not related to Coraid)
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