AoE use is accelerating rapidly, and iSCSI persists because even though it's not the best fit for same-LAN data storage, folks can still get it to work if they are willing and able to deal with the complexity, sacrifice the performance, and don't need the kind of scaling that virtualization and cloud deployments require. Although a lot of the expansion of AoE use lately has been by users of the Coraid HBA, there are still a lot of first-time AoE users using the coraid.com-distributed Linux initiator and also the kernel.org-distributed initiator. Recently there have been a lot of patches from Coraid to the Linux Kernel Mailing List for bringing the kernel.org-distributed driver up to date. For example, http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1377362 We also fixed a regression in the Linux kernel's network layer that affected AoE performance: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/243626 I don't have much time to participate on the aoetools-discuss mailing list right now, partly so that I can keep generating those patches, but I think pessimism is especially inappropriate today, when the use of AoE is accelerating along with the development of its associated technologies, including open source technologies. -- Ed Cashin ecashin@xxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct _______________________________________________ Aoetools-discuss mailing list Aoetools-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/aoetools-discuss
