Re: [PATCH] ATA over Ethernet driver for 2.6.9

From: Ed L Cashin (ecashin_at_coraid.com)
Date: 12/06/04

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Date:	Mon, 06 Dec 2004 11:45:27 -0500

    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. 

    -- 
  Ed L Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
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