Re: AOE and large filesystems?

From: Jeff Garzik (jgarzik_at_pobox.com)
Date: 04/06/05

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    To: Dan Stromberg <strombrg@dcs.nac.uci.edu>
    
    

    Dan Stromberg wrote:
    > Some questions for the list:
    >
    > 1) Is anyone on the list using AOE in production?
    >
    > 2) Is anyone on the list using AOE in combination with md and/or LVM2?
    >
    > 3) Is anyone on the list using AOE on a 64 bit platform?

    While I think AoE is "neat", IMO you really want to use something based
    on TCP, even on a LAN...

    Your CPU usage w/ zerocopy offload could potentially be lowered w/ TCP,
    in addition to the built-in reliability.

    As a tangent, I'd also like to see iSCSI over SCTP.

            Jeff

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