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

[Steve Herber]

Actually, I think that is a very interesting idea.  I always like to have
both ends of a client server pair.  On Linux I think of Apache and Mozilla.
The kernel already has a network raw block io module.  It is the nbd
module:

 * Network block device - make block devices work over TCP
 *
 * Note that you can not swap over this thing, yet. Seems to work but
 * deadlocks sometimes - you can not swap over TCP in general.

That is close to what you are suggesting. 

I love those left field ideas.

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On Thu, 5 May 2005, David J. Pfaltzgraff wrote:

> Here's just a thought coming from left field...
> 
> Considering that there seems to be support in the kernel to be able to
> drive AoE, has anyone considered a module that provides the matching (or
> inverse) capability? For example, with this inverse function, I could take
> an old system that has four ATA (old IDE?) interfaces and an ethernet
> interface and provide AoE storage.
> 
> Is this unreasonable? It would eliminate any dependency on someone else's
> proprietary hardware. I could also put some old cases to work again.
> 
> Am I in the wrong ball park?
> 
> Dave
> 
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