[SLL] Rant: ATA-over-Ethernet 0x88a2

[Russell Evans]

On Thu, 05 May 2005 17:21:02 -0700
"Jesse Keating" <jkeating at j2solutions.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 21:26 -0400, Russell Evans wrote:
> > So what makes it enterprise quality or not? What is your criteria? 
> 

> these are all OK give
> that they have a hardware RAID device managing the disks and the units
> just export RAID LUNs to another system or the OS on the box.  These
> are completely different than an RJ45 cable plugging into an ATA disk
> and letting some system somewhere on the network try to make a volume
> out of them and manage the volume when a disk or network device go
> kaput.  Big difference.

OK, what is the difference, spell it out for me, if you would? As I
haven't ever used the hardware I don't know how it will react to a disk
or network failure so I would like to understand what you think or know
it will do. Maybe the person that saw the demo would pipe up "I thought
AoE was one of the coolest technology shown at LinuxWorld Expo last
summer. " and talk about it a little. Maybe they pulled a disk or
network device?

Thank you
Russell