[9fans] plan 9 vblade - software AoE target

[9fans] plan 9 vblade - software AoE target

[erik quanstrom]

i've put vblade, a software AoE target, on sources
in /n/sources/contrib/quanstro/src/vblade.  this is a 
personal project.

vblade serves a file over AoE.  that is, the file
appears on the network as a block device.

i've currently got a small filesystem on my linux 
machine mounted on an aoe target hosted
by vblade on my cpu server:

	# df | grep etherd
	/dev/etherd/e1.0        102392     61532     40860  61% /mnt/1.0

vblade isn't intended to be fast or fancy.  it has
no buffer cache.  it implements no raid types.

i look forward to comments & bug reports.

- erik

Re: [9fans] plan 9 vblade - software AoE target

[ron minnich]

Stupid question but ... how do we do AoE on Plan 9 at this point? I
have not been paying attention.

thanks

ron

Re: [9fans] plan 9 vblade - software AoE target

[erik quanstrom]

> Stupid question but ... how do we do AoE on Plan 9 at this point? I
> have not been paying attention.

thanks for asking.  it's not a stupid question.  the plan 9 initiator is
not quite ready but it will be pretty soon.  the way i'm using it,
it seems pretty stable.

i am able to pxe boot a system directly onto an aoe fossil root.
so things are moving along.

- erik