Hi, have you try to compile aoe as a module and load it form your intrd ? Arnd Tracy R Reed schrieb: > Hello all! > > Anyone here use AoE? I cannot seem to find an AoE specific mailing > list. Not sure I want to bother the Coraid folks since I am not using > Coraid equipment. Is there a better place for this query? I am so > close to getting my cluster mounted with root (and then Xen domains) > on AoE but my initrd is having problems getting AoE set up. I am using > kernel vmlinuz-2.6.16.13-xen. > > AoE is compiled in statically. > > /sys/module/aoe/parameters/ contains a file called aoe_iflist > > AoE is mentioned in the dmesg when it boots. > > /sys/module/aoe/parameters/aoe_iflist contains the active > ethernet interface. If I echo interface names into /dev/aoe/interfaces > they appear in /sys/module/aoe/parameters/aoe_iflist so I know aoe is > loaded and doing something. > > But when I do echo 1 > /dev/aoe/discover nothing happens. > > Nothing in the dmesg etc. Not sure where to go from here. > I have vblade running on another machine which is directly connected > to the diskless cpu node. No hub or switch involved, just cross > connected ethernet. If I run tethereal on the vblade machine looking > for some sort of AoE related traffic I see nothing coming across the > wire. I do see dhcp requests coming from that interface when the box > boots due to PXE trying to find a server on that interface etc. So I > know the physical ethernet link is good. > > There really isn't much written about AoE. It's so simple that it > seems like there shouldn't be much to write about. > > Any ideas? Thanks! > -- Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
