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-This is a beta release of vblade, the virtual EtherDrive (R) blade.
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-The vblade is a program that makes a seekable file available over an
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-ethernet local area network (LAN) via the ATA over Ethernet (AoE)
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-protocol.
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+The vblade is the virtual EtherDrive (R) blade, a program that makes a
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+seekable file available over an ethernet local area network (LAN) via
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+the ATA over Ethernet (AoE) protocol.
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The seekable file is typically a block device like /dev/md0 but even
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regular files will work. When vblade exports the block storage over
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AoE it becomes a storage target. Another host on the same LAN can
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access the storage if it has a compatible aoe kernel driver.
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-The Linux aoe driver for the 2.6 kernel is compatible if you use
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-aoe-2.6-7 or newer. You can use older aoe drivers but you will only
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-be able to see one vblade per MAC address.
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-
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The following command should build the vblade program on a Linux-based
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system:
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@@ -79,3 +74,17 @@ another host on the LAN.
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hooray
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Remember: be as careful with these devices as you would with /dev/hda!
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+AoE Initiator Compatibility
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+---------------------------
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+ The Linux aoe driver for the 2.6 kernel is compatible if you use
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+ aoe-2.6-7 or newer. You can use older aoe drivers but you will only
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+ be able to see one vblade per MAC address.
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+
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+Kvblade
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+-------
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+
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+ While vblade runs as a userland process (like "ls" or "vi"), there
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+ is another program that runs inside the kernel. It is called
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+ kvblade. It is alpha software.
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