From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4EFE07A4.2070008@0x6a.com> Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:49:08 -0600 From: Jack Norton User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> References: <322fa0e8c0ed03f250cdcecaeec7040b@ladd.quanstro.net> In-Reply-To: <322fa0e8c0ed03f250cdcecaeec7040b@ladd.quanstro.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] (no subject) Topicbox-Message-UUID: 520aa758-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 12/30/2011 12:08 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: >>> It might be a bit >>> much for home use, but if I had a little bit of a budget I'd use Coraid's AoE >>> stuff as the basis for my storage. >> >> Yeah, it's pretty overkill. I've previously worked at a storage >> company as a file system guy and now I have at home a nice array with >> ZFS on top. It works great, but I want to scale down. I want less >> stuff, not more. And I want to use Plan9, not Solaris. > > aoe doesn't require solaris, or any other operating system. > you can use it directly with a plan 9 file server, as i do. > > - erik > I don't think he was implying that one needed the other. In any case I figured I would ask -- are there any plans for a small scale AoE appliance from coraid? Didn't there used to be a single drive AoE kit long ago? What is the list's personal/home usage of AoE like? Do you guys use generic hardware and something like vblade (or those other ones people have made for linux like ggblade or whatever it is called)? -Jack