Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261977AbVDEXIG (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Apr 2005 19:08:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261968AbVDEXIG (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Apr 2005 19:08:06 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:52416 "EHLO parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261977AbVDEXIB (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Apr 2005 19:08:01 -0400 Message-ID: <42531A42.90508@pobox.com> Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 19:07:46 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050328 Fedora/1.7.6-1.2.5 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan Stromberg CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: AOE and large filesystems? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 766 Lines: 26 Dan Stromberg wrote: > Some questions for the list: > > 1) Is anyone on the list using AOE in production? > > 2) Is anyone on the list using AOE in combination with md and/or LVM2? > > 3) Is anyone on the list using AOE on a 64 bit platform? While I think AoE is "neat", IMO you really want to use something based on TCP, even on a LAN... Your CPU usage w/ zerocopy offload could potentially be lowered w/ TCP, in addition to the built-in reliability. As a tangent, I'd also like to see iSCSI over SCTP. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/