Re: block device served over network connections

2006-12-20 Thread Warren Turkal
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 17:29, Ron Johnson wrote: > Roll a custom kernel that either statically links the modules, or > loads them in your preferred order? I don't see how this helps me bring up the network at the right time. I guess you are suggesting this in addition to shuffling around i

Re: block device served over network connections

2006-12-20 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/20/06 18:16, Warren Turkal wrote: > On Wednesday 20 December 2006 02:59, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >> Just rearrange the initscripts so that mdadm is ran _after_ aoetools. > > If it were only that easy, I would do that. However, there is much more

Re: block device served over network connections

2006-12-20 Thread Warren Turkal
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 02:59, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Just rearrange the initscripts so that mdadm is ran _after_ aoetools. If it were only that easy, I would do that. However, there is much more to it. For instance, the mdadm and lvm and evms run in the initramfs. Also the ethernet card

Re: block device served over network connections

2006-12-20 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 02:26:14AM -0700, Warren Turkal wrote: > DDs, > > I am looking for some info on this subject. I have looked at both the > aoetools > and open-iscsi for a solution to the following problem. > > I have a block device that is served over aoe. Basically, I would like to > t

Re: block device served over network connections

2006-12-18 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
> Are there any other packages I should be looking at to make this happen? > > If not, maybe this is something that should be considered by some people > who care as network based block storage is getting more common. With NBD, > AOE, and ISCSI (and others I am sure), I don't think that each packa

block device served over network connections

2006-12-18 Thread Warren Turkal
DDs, I am looking for some info on this subject. I have looked at both the aoetools and open-iscsi for a solution to the following problem. I have a block device that is served over aoe. Basically, I would like to take two of these devices (e0.0 and e1.0) and create a raid1 with software RAID.