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> aoe doesn't require solaris, or any other operating system.
> you can use it directly with a plan 9 file server, as i do.

Of course AoE doesn't require much, my comment was in the context of
Coraid's hardware appliance.

I don't have much use for AoE at home.  At one point I used it to
network boot machines, but I only have laptops now, which have local
disks because I need to use them disconnected from the network
sometimes.

I need a higher level protocol like 9p or venti, and I'd rather have a
single Plan 9 machine with direct attached disks serving everything
than a Plan 9 front end serving 9p and another machine providing AoE
to it.  I have way, way to many machines. Yesterday I've thrown away
5.  I need less machines, not more :-).

Does the Coraid applience implement RAID in hardware or does it use
fs(3) or another software solution?

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