AoE for FreeBSD

Sam Hopkins sah at coraid.com
Thu Nov 11 08:41:53 PST 2004


> Sam Hopkins wrote:
>> Just a quick note to mention that I've added AoE support to FreeBSD
>> 4.10, 5.3, and 6.0. Patches are available at
>> http://www.coraid.com/support/freebsd.
>> 
>> If anyone knows where else I could announce this, I'd appreciate it.
> 
> Very cool.  Have you tried to run (g)vinum on top of AOE drives?

Yeah, on 4.10 I tested with a stripe and a raid 5.  The performance
of the stripe scaled linearly with the number of blades involved.

I haven't tested on 5.3/6.0 because (g)vinum seems a bit shaky.
It should work fine, though.  The driver just provides disk devices.

Sam



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