Hi again... > > - Adding boot support for AoE in distros (i.e. i have built myself > an initrd to boot from AoE via PXE) > > > >>>> I think PXE booting ( with the help of DHCP server + TFTP server > ) support for AoE is already provided by Coraid. Win AoE also provide > support of diskless booting for Windows client. Ed Cashin can > comment on this. > > Here i'm mainly looking at getting distros to support installation to, and booing from AoE out of the box. E.g., for my last trial with Ubuntu, you can install to AoE by fiddling with the console during install. But it would be good, if the normal graphical isntaller would let you work with an AoE target directly. That way, more common users have access to the technology. As well, AoE root needs some modifications at runtime. In case of Ubuntu, little changes to their initrd were necessary which could go upstream and get into default distro. As well during shutdown unmount operations / network shutdown in case of AoE must be treated similar to NFS root. So, basically, not the work on AoE directly, but the work to make it available mainstream.
> - Perfect would be, if BIOSs would support booting from AoE (as > has afaik recently be realized by AMI for iSCSI, AoE should be > easier no ?), open BIOSs should get support. That way it should > even be possible to boot MS Software from AoE. > > > >>>> This seems quite interesting work. I will have a look of it and > let you know after my investigation. Some more clear and detail > problem statement ( oe guideline ) from your side can help me to > achieve this target easily . Basically it's about contacting BIOS vendors and getting them to support AoE. This is the AMI press release: http://www.ami.com/news/pressshow.cfm?PrID=301 This is coreboot: http://www.coreboot.org/Welcome_to_coreboot or openBIOS: http://www.openfirmware.info/Welcome_to_OpenBIOS The latter two could at least serve as proof of concept, ie using openBIOS to boot MS OS in QEMU from AoE. > > > > - Getting AoE support into common NAS devices (especially bigger > RAIDed ones) > > > >>>> Just asking, ( may be I am not aware ) , is there any problem > with AoE in terms of storage capacity when it is used with bigger RAID > devices ? If its' like that then please let me know. I will have a > look of it also. Not that i'm aware. The idea here is that AoE could become a supported feature of NAS devices as they are delivered from different vendors. Buffalo, Netgear, QNAP, Synology , Thecus etc. Together with above support in BIOSs and distros, your standard home user you run diskless using the NASs that seem to get sold a lot. Suddenly home users have enterprise features. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p _______________________________________________ Aoetools-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/aoetools-discuss
