[mythtv-users] esata drives - experience?

Dan Ritter dsr-myth at tao.merseine.nu
Wed Apr 9 01:11:30 UTC 2008


On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 05:37:11PM -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 09:39:36AM -0700, Yan Seiner wrote:
> > > For lower overhead you can use AoE instead of iSCSI if both machines are
> > > on the same LAN.
> > 
> > What's AoE?  I've not heard that before.
> 
> It's Coraid's proposed standard ATA over Ethernet SAN protocol.
> 
> They're the only people currently making hardware for it, which I find
> a little disappointing, cause it really does seem like a neat idea.
> I'll probably experiment with it a little bit here at my new gig.

OTOH I understand that you can export any local filesystem on a
modern Linux box with it. Might be a decent platform for OCFS2,
might not.


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