> 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 :-).
sure, but you haven't answered the question of how to do redundancy and recovery. aoe is a good way to isolate these functions into an appliance. > Does the Coraid applience implement RAID in hardware or does it use > fs(3) or another software solution? if a coraid appliance were pcie-attached rather than ethernet attached, would you still ask this question? do you think the block diagram of coraid hardware looks fundamentally different than the block diagram of a raid card? - erik
