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

[Jerry Yu]

thx, Randal. darn, I assumed the RAID is hw-based, reading the white paper 
PDF for the 1u and 3U SATA AOE chassis,

On 8/10/05, Randal Jarrett (K4RSJ) <rsj at radio.org> wrote:
> 
> At the time that we did the test the only eval/test hardware available
> from Coraid only supported PATA and 10/100 ethernet. I believe that they
> now have their SATA / GigE hardware available.
> 
> There are downsides to the AOE. All raid is done in software on the
> target system, and drives are not shared between systems, I'm sure that
> there are times that this is sufficient for many applications but it is
> not a replacement for a SAN system.
> 
> I see AOE as a good disk array for use for a single server and using
> software RAID and/or LVM to partition and/or combine multiple drives.
> 
> If you get one of the Coraid shelf units with 10/14 drives, it shows up
> on your system as 10/14 individual local drives, not as a large single
> drive.
> 
> Randy
> 
> On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 20:30 -0400, Jerry Yu wrote:
> > 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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