On Wednesday, 30 בSeptember 2009 16:09:33 Amos Shapira wrote:
> Thanks but it's not as cheap as I was hoping for ("starts at $1995")
> and is proprietary. I'd prefer to stick to something more open, like
> iSCSI, and cheaper.Leaving price aside, calling it proprietary is complete injustice to the product. Some history... http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0404.2/1226.html Today... a snippet from 'modinfo aoe' description: AoE block/char driver for 2.6.2 and newer 2.6 kernels author: Sam Hopkins <s...@coraid.com> license: GPL vermagic: 2.6.30.8-64.fc11.i686.PAE SMP mod_unload 686 Also... $ yum list aoetools aoetools.i586 23-2.fc11 installed In Debian... http://packages.qa.debian.org/a/aoetools.html Last but not least... http://www.coraid.com/RESOURCES/AoE-Protocol-Definition So we have a free software driver, in upstream kernel for several years, maintained by the company itself, including free software user space tools and with simple and accessible protocol definition -- I wish all hardware vendors were as open. Cheers, -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron Free software: each person contributes a brick, but ultimately each person receives a house in return. -- Brendan Scott _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
