On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 19:31 +0200, Maciej Soltysiak wrote: > Hi, > > AOE is a bit new for me. > > Would it be possible to use tha AOE driver to > attach one ATA drive in a host over ethernet to another > host ? Or is it support for specific hardware devices only? > > You know, something like: > # fdisk <device_on_another_host> > # mkfs.ext2 <device_on_another_host/partition1> > # mount <device_on_another_host/partition1> /mnt/part1 > That seems to be the basic idea but there doesn't seem to be a provider stack just yet, just a 'client' (though I could be wrong). AOE is similar in concept to iSCSI with the biggest difference being that AOE runs over Ethernet and is thus non-routeable. iSCSI operates over IP so you can do all kinds of fun IP games with it. > -- > Maciej > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to [email protected] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- David Hollis <[email protected]>
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