Hi,
Happy to sse that Coraid is contributing to the kernel.org initiator!
I have tryed for a while to convince customers of my former company to give
AoE a try. After presenting them the technology they had no doubt about AoE
superiority over iSCSI. However, they often chose iscsi as it appeared to
be the de-facto standard.
IMHO, this is, for a large part, due to the lack of activities in the
various opensource implementation. That said this lack of activity is
understandable as the specs didn't evolve, so I presume only few work has
to be done...
Targets like AoE are realy interresting project, but are now abandonned
(partly) because of this I guess.
In any case an activity on the client side is a good news!
Question... is it possible to use Coraid HBA with a Linux target? If so,
does it drop the need for the sofware initiator?
Kind regards.
2012/10/19 Torbjørn Thorsen <torbj...@trollweb.no>
> I'm happy to hear that there is now progress on getting the initiator
> updated in upstream, hopefully this will help to correct the
> assumption that AoE is dead or dying.
>
> Not that I'm very knowledgeable about the storage sector, but it seems
> to me that AoEs main problem as a technology is marketing.
> I've spoken to other sysadmins that merely go "Huh?" when I tell them
> we're running AoE, but many people seem to find the idea interesting
> when I explain what it is.
>
> For my part, I can say that I set up AoE on default Debian packages
> some time ago, and everything has more or less "Just Worked"(TM) since
> then.
> Not that my deployment is very fancy or has a high load on it, but
> still, AoE brings home the bacon for our part.
>
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Ed Cashin <ecas...@coraid.com> wrote:
> > AoE use is accelerating rapidly, and iSCSI persists because even though
> it's not the best fit for same-LAN data storage, folks can still get it to
> work if they are willing and able to deal with the complexity, sacrifice
> the performance, and don't need the kind of scaling that virtualization and
> cloud deployments require.
> >
> > Although a lot of the expansion of AoE use lately has been by users of
> the Coraid HBA, there are still a lot of first-time AoE users using the
> coraid.com-distributed Linux initiator and also the kernel.org-distributed
> initiator. Recently there have been a lot of patches from Coraid to the
> Linux Kernel Mailing List for bringing the kernel.org-distributed driver up
> to date. For example,
> >
> > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1377362
> >
> > We also fixed a regression in the Linux kernel's network layer that
> affected AoE performance:
> >
> > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/243626
> >
> > I don't have much time to participate on the aoetools-discuss mailing
> list right now, partly so that I can keep generating those patches, but I
> think pessimism is especially inappropriate today, when the use of AoE is
> accelerating along with the development of its associated technologies,
> including open source technologies.
> >
> > --
> > Ed Cashin
> > ecas...@coraid.com
> >
> >
> >
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