Re: [9fans] Anatomy of a vblade image

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>]

> I'm serving drives to WinXP64 via AOE with http://winaoe.org/
> I've had a few blue screens but I think they have been caused by the
> server side serving bad data.

what do you mean by "server side"?

> If the vblade goes away after being
> mounted the NT kernel keeps trying to read it which amounts to waiting
> for network packets to arrive and of course they never do so any NT
> syscalls take forever (though they run eventually). It does come back to
> life even if you vblade a different sized disk.

it is expected behavior for aoe devices to be
able to take short vacations.  our main fs uses
aoe.  we can upgrade the shelf without bringing
down the fs.

it does sounds like the free windows aoe driver
needs to handle the case where storage goes
away more gracefully.  it may be that it is retransmitting
too agressively.

- erik