would be nice if gentoo supported booting off a ata over ethernet device the thread link below has whats required to get it up which basicly involves modprobing the ethernet interface bring it up waiting a few seconds telling aoe to look for devices and then doing what one would do normally with a local ata device afterwards that i think is all genkernel territory for shutdown tho the ethernet device needs to be left up so the filesystems can be properly unmounted http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.network.aoe.aoetools.general/167/focus=167
livecd would prob also need aoe kernel module aoetools more than likely also
while this is technically correct the developers would need to have the environment setup to test this situation. This is something that is on my radar but has not progressed very far due to time and hardware limitations.
hardware wise a few mb on your disk and a loopback file and something like vmware should allow for that no?
Also, feel free to provide a patch for this functionality.
Should this bug be marked as a duplicate of 199444 ?
Nope. They're two different bugs.
OK. I'm wanting this to be included into 3.4.11 of genkernel, but I would like it if someone could (at least) provide me a list of the necessary binaries/libraries and how to do a setup for this, preferably in this bug itself, so I have everything that I'll need in one place. Otherwise, it might need to wait until the release after that.
aoe-interfaces -- limit the interfaces listened on aoe-discover -- find all the targets avaiable aoe-stat -- show all targets aoe-flush -- clear [ all |a ] targets(s) aoe-mkdevs -- creates the character devices in /dev/ aoe-revalidate -- check the disk ident aoe-version -- show the driver verision aoecfg -- manipulate the "config string" on a target aoeping -- a ping type command that does not go through the driver The commands with dashes in the name are shell scripts. The last two are binaries which only link to glibc. A brief discussion By default all interfaces are available for aoe traffic. The aoe-interfaces command defines an exclusive list of interfaces to use instead. The driver re-detects new targets every 60 seconds discover triggers an immediate "Broadcast Query Config". Aoe-stat will display all the targets known, their sizes, what interface they are on, and whether they are available. If one is unavailable it can be flushed from the the dev tree with aoe-flush. Aoe-flush may be used to remove all devices that are not pending IO with the -f flag. If you have resized a device or a subdevice (partition) using aoe-revalidate on the target will update the block layers information on the target. Aoe-mkdevs is not needed if UDEV is used. Aoe-ping is usefule determining if the problem with unavailable storage is the driver or something else. That all said there is already an ebuild to install these tools sys-block/aoetools. I tend to bump it when there is a new release but someone else is sticking in cvs.
Additional detail: The two binaries do not use the driver. This allows them to work even if there is a problem with the driver.
If this is still a valid feature request, please come up with patches. Closing as can't fix for now because I cannot test AoE.
