[ale] what to do with dozens of 40GB IDE drives?

Jerry Yu jjj863 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 10 20:30:52 EDT 2005


in your test, Randal, did you buy a gigaE nic for the host server? regular 
cat5e cable or fiber optic?

On 8/10/05, Randal Jarrett (K4RSJ) <rsj at radio.org> wrote:
> 
> It is in the current 2.6.xx kernels.
> 
> It is very easy to implement. It only took me about 10 minutes
> to bring up an AOE drive in Suse 9.3.
> 
> I did some timing comparisons with different disk copies and it
> held its own and even was faster on some tests. Sorry, I don't have
> the results. We did the tests on my test/crash system that one of
> my sons appropriated last month. :-(
> 
> The single drive (eval) hardware is kind of expensive but the
> multi-drive packages (both PATA and SATA) are very in-expensive
> compared to a lot of other solutions.
> 
> 
> 
> Randy
> 
> On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 17:37 -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> > On 8/10/05, Jimmy Oliver <jimmyoliver at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > ATA over Ethernet. Check out this article
> > > http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8149
> > >
> >
> > Very interesting (and new to me!!!).
> >
> > The article implies it is available in Debian Sarge.
> >
> > Is "ATA over Ethernet" in the vanilla kernel.
> >
> > Greg
> --
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> 
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