Re: AOE and large filesystems?

[Jeff Garzik]

Dan Stromberg wrote:
> Some questions for the list:
>
> 1) Is anyone on the list using AOE in production?
>
> 2) Is anyone on the list using AOE in combination with md and/or LVM2?
>
> 3) Is anyone on the list using AOE on a 64 bit platform?

While I think AoE is "neat", IMO you really want to use something based 
on TCP, even on a LAN...

Your CPU usage w/ zerocopy offload could potentially be lowered w/ TCP, 
in addition to the built-in reliability.

As a tangent, I'd also like to see iSCSI over SCTP.

	Jeff



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