11 Jun
2009
11 Jun
'09
10:54 p.m.
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 7:33 PM, Tom Peters<tpeters at mixcom.com> wrote:
At 11:22 PM 6/11/2009 +0100, you wrote:
We have one of those too, at Sandia National Labs.
Guess what the underlying system is? It's actually Plan 9, not Linux.
We have a 16-slot Coraid box full of 1 TB drives. It works very nicely
with our Plan 9 box... we use it for our archival storage system,
Venti.
John
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On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 12:51 -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
Gord:
We here at Milwaukee County Transit have about 59TB on AOE
(ATA-over-Ethernet). We use these 15-slot boxes from Coraid that boot up a
little Linux kernel- but that's largely invisible to the user. It uses all
the existing wiring- cat 5, fiber, whatever. We dedicated some small
ethernet switches to them, but you wouldn't necessarily have to. One of them
is across the street, on a fiber link, in case the building blows up. The
Coraid boxes use standard SATA drives, any size, and support all kinda array
structures, RAID levels, etc. I think the AOE "initiator" is open-source, so
you should be able to port it to older architecture.
On Jun 11, 2009, at 12:29 PM, John Finigan
wrote:
> iSCSI makes up (in a clumsy way) for a lack of a "first class citizen"
? ?Eh. ?(and this is WAY OT) ?iSCSI is kinda
interesting; I've been
working with it quite a bit lately.
Have you seen ATAoE? ?It is, as the name implies, ATA over Ethernet.
Unlike the 300-page mail-order catalogue of the iSCSI spec, the ATAoE
spec is eight pages, mostly taken up with diagrams showing an ATA packet
wrapped inside an Ethernet frame.
I toyed briefly with the idea of writing an ATAoE target for the PDP11.
Not sure if I could port it to OS/2, though, or make it talk to TK50s.