[ale] AoE and Cluster-Aware Raid

[Jeff Lightner]

Have a look at NBD and GNBD (latter for RedHat/Fedora) to see if that
helps.  Haven't used it yet but started reading up on latter for a
project I was thinking of doing - it seems to allow you to use internal
storage from one server as part of your cluster storage.

Also you might want to look at iSCSI implementations.  Haven't played
with that either but it is something some arrays are shipping natively
now to allow you to do RAID attachments without Fibre.  I'm pretty sure
I've seen mention of using it from server to server as well.

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jeff
Hubbs
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 10:38 AM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: [ale] AoE and Cluster-Aware Raid

I'm trying to acquire some mojo on ATE over Ethernet and specifically 
having multiple initiators (think "clients") make RAID volumes out of 
multiple separate targets (think "servers").  Googling turned up 
mentions of having cluster-aware kernel RAID "real soon now" in the 
2006-ish timeframe. 

Anyone knows where this stands now?

- Jeff
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