From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030447AbWHXSjh (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Aug 2006 14:39:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030446AbWHXSjh (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Aug 2006 14:39:37 -0400 Received: from fmmailgate03.web.de ([217.72.192.234]:20944 "EHLO fmmailgate03.web.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030454AbWHXSjg (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Aug 2006 14:39:36 -0400 Message-ID: <014301c6c7ad$a84b88f0$962e8d52@aldipc> From: "roland" To: Subject: [ANNOUNCE][RFC] kvblade-alpha-2 / ATA Over Ethernet kernel "target" module Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 20:46:43 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello ! If you don`t know about AoE and being interested in network-based Storage/SAN technology, you may take a look at http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8149 first. This article gives a nice introduction into AoE technology. Kvblade is the kernel-based equivalent of (userspace)vblade and also a second approach (there is another at http://lpk.com.price.ru/~lelik/AoE/) to build an kernel-based AoE "target" (a vblade in AoE terminology is similar to iscsi-target or nbd-server, exporting a block-device over the network, but working on ethernet-layer instead of TCP/IP) Kvblade is counterpart to the AoE driver which is in 2.6 for some time now and it basically does in software, what "Coraid EtherDriveŽ Storage" does in hardware. Kvblade is now part of the aoetools project at http://aoetools.sourceforge.net . It`s at an early alpha stage and the initial creator, Sam Hopkins from Coraid just decided to release it to the public due to lack of time working further on this. Unfortunately i`m no kernel hacker, but maybe there is someone who likes to give it a try, make a little code-review, pick it up and contribute or even rewrite it from scratch. :) regards Roland Kletzing (sysadmin/engineer, independent linux enthusiast, not related to Coraid)