Andrei,
Thanks for your quick reply. Your live CD site seems to be useful however
maybe I'm not grasping how to use AoE properly for some reason. I have it
setup to a degree but when I run `aoe-stat' to see the status of AoE drives
on the network I don't see any. Am I supposed to run that on the computer
that has the drives or on the client that wants to connect to the server?
Secondly, if I do `ls /dev/etherd |wc -l' on my computer that has the extra
drives it comes up with over a hundred files!!! All I have on my computer
are 3 250gb sata hard drives, 1 with partitioned with the OS and swap stuff
and the other 2 completely empty.
In a nutshell how do I serve the 2 empty 250 gb hard drives into my network
so the client computer that I want to use them with could "see" them? I
don't understand how I am supposed to know which /dev/ethernd/eX.X files are
used in a whole just to represent one drive and put it on the ethernet just
yet.
Thanks for your help in advanced!
- Jake C.
On 10/21/06, Jake Conk <jake.conk@...> wrote:
>
> Andrei,
>
> Thanks for your quick reply. Your live CD site seems to be useful however
> maybe I'm not grasping how to use AoE properly for some reason. I have it
> setup to a degree but when I run `aoe-stat' to see the status of AoE drives
> on the network I don't see any. Am I supposed to run that on the computer
> that has the drives or on the client that wants to connect to the server?
> Secondly, if I do `ls /dev/etherd |wc -l' on my computer that has the extra
> drives it comes up with over a hundred files!!! All I have on my computer
> are 3 250gb sata hard drives, 1 with partitioned with the OS and swap stuff
> and the other 2 completely empty.
>
> In a nutshell how do I serve the 2 empty 250 gb hard drives into my
> network so the client computer that I want to use them with could "see"
> them? I don't understand how I am supposed to know which /dev/ethernd/eX.X
> files are used in a whole just to represent one drive and put it on the
> ethernet just yet.
>
> Thanks for your help in advanced!
> - Jake C.
>
> PS: To anyone else reading this, the right url is
> http://www.lbserver.org/aoe/, not http://www.lbserver.com.
>
>
>
> On 10/21/06, Andrei Levin <andrei@...> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 2006-10-21 at 00:12 -0700, Jake Conk wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I installed AoE and have been messing around with it but I'm not sure
> > > if this is right for me. I've been searching hi and low for an example
> >
> > > of connecting drives to my server that are not located on the same
> > > computer but on the same local network. From what I get about reading
> > > the details of AoE is that I should be able to connect drives onto a
> > > single server as if they were physically connected to it but through
> > > ethernet.
> > >
> > > Here is my setup and what I'm trying to accomplish...
> > >
> > > I have 2 servers, ServerA with no available space left and ServerB
> > > with 3 empty hard drives of 100gb. Now I would like to have the 3 hard
> > > drives from ServerB available on ServerA and then I would like to soft
> > > raid them together from ServerA. In the future the 3 100gb hard drives
> >
> > > will max out and I would then need to extend the soft raid I have
> > > setup to expand to ServerC (which currently doesn't exist) and I would
> > > like this to be transparent to the user.
> > >
> > > Is AoE my solution first of all to get my SATA hard drives ethernet'ed
> >
> > > to ServerA as if they were physically on the computer or am I looking
> > > for another solution?
> > Yes AoE can solve your problems.
> > > If this is possible can someone point me into the right direction of
> > > doing this?
> > Look if my LiveCD can help you: http://www.lbserver/aoe/
> >
> > Andrei
> > --
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> >
> > via Co' del Panico 36/1
> > 35028 Piove di Sacco (PD)
> >
> > tel. 049-7966424
> > fax 049-7966600
> >
> >
>
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