Re: [Aoetools-discuss] AoE blog article

2012-04-26 Thread Tracy Reed
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 01:47:23PM +0200, Lars Täuber spake thusly: Tracy Reed tr...@ultraviolet.org schrieb: Reasons why I am currently migrating away from AoE to iSCSI (*sigh*): 1. Disk alignment between Xen VMs and the target. What do you mean by that? I mean that when I configure

Re: [Aoetools-discuss] AoE blog article

2012-04-24 Thread Tracy Reed
been using LACP but with multipath you can span switches without needing fancy expensive stacking switches which is pretty cool. I really should consider whether I want to go multipath with iSCSI. -- Tracy Reed pgp72iBSsRUb5.pgp Description: PGP signature

[Aoetools-discuss] AoE blog article

2012-04-23 Thread Tracy Reed
Here's a good blog article on some of the current problems with AoE that are killing its adoption and therefore utility to potential Coraid customers: http://www.typinganimal.net/wp/2012/04/16/red-hat-just-doesnt-get-aoe/ -- Tracy Reed pgpHVHTwd28x9.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [Aoetools-discuss] Project alive?

2012-04-18 Thread Tracy Reed
complete and there are no showstopper bugs that I am aware of. So there hasn't been much work done on it. I'm don't know what Coraid's long-term plans for it are. -- Tracy Reed pgpfLNd456qfi.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [Aoetools-discuss] Throughput for raw AoE device versus filesystem

2011-07-05 Thread Tracy Reed
: Throw lots of spindles at the problem. -- Tracy Reed Digital signature attached for your safety. CopilotcoProfessionally Managed PCI Compliant Secure Hosting 866-MY-COPILOT x101 http://copilotco.com pgpy50WeWKhxL.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [Aoetools-discuss] AoE seems slow compared to iSCSI, what am I doing wrong ?

2011-05-09 Thread Tracy Reed
, I don't see the need for partitioning at this level. Good. Glad you got your performance issue fixed. I have strugged with many myself over nearly 6 years of using AoE and I what I gave you is my standard formula for always getting max performance. -- Tracy Reed pgpaMcdactpfb.pgp Description

Re: [Aoetools-discuss] Ethernet CRC-32 and Data integrity?

2010-11-10 Thread Tracy Reed
tunnel (being careful of MTU concerns etc). I think the genious of AoE vs iSCSI is in adhering to the separation of concerns of each of the layers of the network stack. -- Tracy Reed http://tracyreed.org pgp84YiSewSQD.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [Aoetools-discuss] CORAID HBA with vblade

2010-10-13 Thread Tracy Reed
for driver development. I doubt this question has little practical value for the original poster. -- Tracy Reed http://tracyreed.org pgp0QOTWqk8C5.pgp Description: PGP signature -- Beautiful is writing same markup

Re: [Aoetools-discuss] AOE

2010-05-12 Thread Tracy Reed
to try. You may need to align the start of data of your partition on a 64 cylinder boundary. I don't have a web browser handy but google for linux raid alignment and you should find some pointers which may help. -- Tracy Reed http://tracyreed.org pgpidUtKF2xE6.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [Aoetools-discuss] AOE

2010-05-12 Thread Tracy Reed
for accessing the underlying block device. -- Tracy Reed http://tracyreed.org pgp8kPWbxrw3u.pgp Description: PGP signature -- ___ Aoetools-discuss mailing list

Re: [Aoetools-discuss] AOE

2010-05-12 Thread Tracy Reed
for it? -- Tracy Reed -- ___ Aoetools-discuss mailing list Aoetools-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/aoetools-discuss

Re: [Aoetools-discuss] AOE

2010-05-11 Thread Tracy Reed
-caching-alignment.pdf/at_download/file -- Tracy Reed http://tracyreed.org pgpYmKSilaEYK.pgp Description: PGP signature -- ___ Aoetools-discuss mailing list Aoetools-discuss

[Aoetools-discuss] domU is causing misaligned disk writes

2010-04-20 Thread Tracy Reed
: http://copilotco.com/Virtualization/wiki/aoe-caching-alignment.pdf/at_download/file All to no avail. What am I missing here? Why is domU apparently fudging my writes? -- Tracy Reed http://tracyreed.org pgpRIn3Fmcl6X.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [Aoetools-discuss] [Xen-devel] domU is causing misaligned disk writes

2010-04-20 Thread Tracy Reed
partitioning problem. But every scheme I have tried has failed to work properly. Appreciate any pointers. -- Tracy Reed http://tracyreed.org pgp3rUhOUpxW7.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [Aoetools-discuss] [Xen-devel] domU is causing misaligned disk writes

2010-04-20 Thread Tracy Reed
else? -- Tracy Reed http://tracyreed.org pgpI4OMgBXznq.pgp Description: PGP signature -- ___ Aoetools-discuss mailing list Aoetools-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https

Re: [Aoetools-discuss] [Xen-devel] domU is causing misaligned disk writes

2010-04-20 Thread Tracy Reed
) but otherwise normal. I don't see anything indicating alignment issues. -- Tracy Reed http://tracyreed.org pgpoPja4GCdfF.pgp Description: PGP signature -- ___ Aoetools-discuss

Re: [Aoetools-discuss] [ANNOUNCE] ggaoed 1.0

2009-11-12 Thread Tracy Reed
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[Aoetools-discuss] Retransmit issues

2009-08-07 Thread Tracy Reed
the problem could be. -- Tracy Reed http://tracyreed.org pgpAoeLHTTfVL.pgp Description: PGP signature -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration

Re: [Aoetools-discuss] Boot FreeBSD from AoE

2009-05-01 Thread Tracy Reed
module and sets up any necessary networking to make the AoE root fs accessable and then continues with the normal boot process. I bet FreeBSD can do similar. You will probably have to make the FreeBSD initrd yourself just like I did for Linux. -- Tracy Reed http://tracyreed.org pgpQQdDmn49j2.pgp