On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 02:04:29PM -0400, Tracy Reed wrote: >On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 11:31:05AM -0400, Sam Hopkins spake thusly: >> AoE screams using our target appliances. Don't confuse the >> limitations of an open source target implementation with limitations >> inherent in AoE. > >I understand that this is probably by design. However, the complexity >of getting AoE to perform well in initial tests hurts the ability to >sell the appliance as a solution. I have recommended Coraid appliances >4 times in the last few years. One company actually purchased. But >when they found they could only export whole drives they ended up >returning them as that setup was not suitable for their virtualization >goals. Has that issue been corrected yet? This was 3-4 years ago.
It is certainly possible to create multiple LUNs within a single device. These are all exported separately. For example, given a 24 drive array, you could make (for example), a 6 disk RAID5 array, two different 4 disk RAID 10 arrays, 10 disk RAID6 array, and 2 hot spares. These would be exported as 4 different devices in the form of /dev/ether/eX.Y (where X is the shelf number, and Y is the LUN number). You can't, however, create a large RAID10 array and export smaller chunks of it. (at least, not yet, I think that's being worked on) -- Jesse Becker NHGRI Linux support (Digicon Contractor) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Aoetools-discuss mailing list Aoetools-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/aoetools-discuss
