Re: [PATCH] ATA over Ethernet driver for 2.6.9

From: Alan Cox
Date: Mon Dec 06 2004 - 12:16:12 EST


On Llu, 2004-12-06 at 16:45, Ed L Cashin wrote:
> >> (We also have an AoE driver for the 2.4 kernel that we plan to release
> >> soon.)
> >
> > Is there a free server for this?
>
> Are you asking whether anybody has written software that allows a
> network host to export block storage using AoE? Not yet, as far as I
> know.

I wrote a very bad one for the original protocol draft when playing with
this stuff some time ago. I'm not sure its actually worth ressurecting.
It's pretty trivial to write but ATAoE is rather more interesting in the
context of microcontroller on ethernet than the PC side.


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