On 07/25/2013 09:56 AM, Fernando Cassia issued this missive:
I remember looking at ATA over Ethernet back in 2007 but back then
it
relied on vendor-provided drivers....
I read now that AoE has been merged into the Linux kernel starting w
2.6.11 or thereabouts...,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATA_over_Ethernet
My questions are twofold:
1. Of all the drivers for AoE available, anyone here has succesfully
used any with Fedora?
2. Hardware: If AOE was ever popular, it seems interest has decreased
now, as for the life of me I cant seem to find ANY low cost, single
drive SATA to AoE adapter on Amazon.com...
I don't think AoE really ever got any traction. iSCSI generally trumped
its performance. I deployed a number of iSCSI things years ago using EMC
storage arrays.
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I guess what I'm looking for is a single drive SATA to AoE
(Gigabit if
possible) "enabler". Ideally it'd also have to cost less than a NAS
with its own OS and CPU.... Is there anything out there?
There's really no need for AoE anymore IMHO. If you're in dire need of
it, iSCSI is faster and your computers can be iSCSI targets or
initiators. A NAS device or USB or ESATA external drive is generally
cheaper and usually standalone to boot.
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