Re: [PATCH] ATA over Ethernet driver for 2.6.9

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> >Well, at least it has a chance to correctly work in low-memory 
> >conditions,
> >and it might be possible to swap over AoE.
> >ARPs are real problem there.
> >				> Well, how about caching the hw address of the AoE device
> somewhere in the data structure describing the block device?s
> Then you won't need to ARP for it, and I guess that address isn't
> likely to change while the device is in use?

That's what I'm saying... There's chance to swap over ATA over ethernet.
It would be very hard to do swap over ATA over IP.
				Pavel
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