Hi Oliver, On Wed, 2014-01-22 at 15:19 +0100, Oliver Rath wrote: > Hi list, > > is it planned to include AoE-server support in TCM subsystem? No, your the first to show interest. ;) > As this is > a really fast network transport ability, too, it could exist in parallel > to iSCSI as an additional option. The reference implementation is > userspace, but there exist several (outdated) kernel implementations, > which are not in the mainstream kernel yet. > > i.E.: > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/aoetools/files/?source=navbar > http://code.google.com/p/qaoed/source/checkout > http://code.google.com/p/ggaoed/source/checkout > > The AoE clients modul seems still active deveolped. > Given that AoE is using a raw block interface on the client side and natively speaks the ATA command set (eg: not SCSI Block Commands / SBC) it would require some manner of translation layer between the two. That part would be relatively straight forward to do given the small number of ATA commands required to get an AoE block device going.. However, this development would need to be driven by someone with the interest + time to invest in making it happen. --nab -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe target-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
