On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 3:11 AM, Smart <sm...@smartpal.de> wrote:
> As this is a kind of request for "goals" i just and plain state such here,
> despite that it is not a developing target as such. More a use case.
>>>> Use Cases are also welcome.....& believe me it has same value for me
like any development work.
>
>
> IMO diskless boot is a big thing, and for achieving such all the related
> components should get attention.
>>>> Once I have setup PXE booting for thinclients when I was working with
UNDI driver. and let me tell you diskless booting is not a big thing, its'
an interesting work ; you can always have fun when you play with booting
work.
>
>
> - Adding boot support for AoE in distros (i.e. i have built myself an
> initrd to boot from AoE via PXE)
>>>> I think PXE booting ( with the help of DHCP server + TFTP server )
support for AoE is already provided by Coraid. Win AoE also provide support
of diskless booting for Windows client. Ed Cashin can comment on this.
>
> - Perfect would be, if BIOSs would support booting from AoE (as has afaik
> recently be realized by AMI for iSCSI, AoE should be easier no ?), open
> BIOSs should get support. That way it should even be possible to boot MS
> Software from AoE.
>>>> This seems quite interesting work. I will have a look of it and let
you know after my investigation. Some more clear and detail problem
statement ( oe guideline ) from your side can help me to achieve this target
easily .
>
> - Getting AoE support into common NAS devices (especially bigger RAIDed
> ones)
>>>> Just asking, ( may be I am not aware ) , is there any problem with AoE
in terms of storage capacity when it is used with bigger RAID devices ? If
its' like that then please let me know. I will have a look of it also.
Thanks & Best Regards,
Krishna
>
>
>
> er krishna schrieb:
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> Its a long time for me to playing with AoE targets and now I think I
>> should contribute something to AoE. AoE has to go a long way, so we can
>> always make it comparable to iSCSI in terms of reliablility, speed and
>> features.
>>
>> First of all, I want to list out the features where we can get challanges
>> if we use AoE in Enterprise SAN.
>>
>> I want to ask all the community members weather they are kernel hackers,
>> system admin or end users : where you feel that some features are missing in
>> AoE. Tell me the features which you really want or you think it should be in
>> AoE targets (like configuration files, GUI, MPIO, Platform Comaptibility). I
>> just want to know at least one feature from all the people in AoE community,
>> so that I can filter some of them and start working accordingly.
>>
>> Thanks & Best regards,
>> Krishna
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