> aoe doesn't require solaris, or any other operating system. > you can use it directly with a plan 9 file server, as i do.
Of course AoE doesn't require much, my comment was in the context of Coraid's hardware appliance. I don't have much use for AoE at home. At one point I used it to network boot machines, but I only have laptops now, which have local disks because I need to use them disconnected from the network sometimes. I need a higher level protocol like 9p or venti, and I'd rather have a single Plan 9 machine with direct attached disks serving everything than a Plan 9 front end serving 9p and another machine providing AoE to it. I have way, way to many machines. Yesterday I've thrown away 5. I need less machines, not more :-). Does the Coraid applience implement RAID in hardware or does it use fs(3) or another software solution? -- Aram Hăvărneanu
