Anyone tried using AOE with the Welland ME-747GKS?

Michael Doerner - TechnologyWise

2011-01-27 08:59:17 UTC

Post by Glen Ogilvie
Hi,
I see that the Welland ME-747GKS drive enclosure supports AOE. I've
been looking for something
like this for awhile. Has anyone tried it with Linux here?

Hi Glen,

This reply might be a little late but we only recently had a look at
this. Under CentOS 5.5 it was actually quite easy, AoE is built into the
kernel since version 2.6.11.

Requirements: You need "AoEtools" and although we compiled them first
from source on one machine, I prefer to use RPMS. To find a suitable one
for that CentOS release was a bit tricky and at the end I had to use
this one (which was built for RHEL4):

ftp://195.220.108.108/linux/epel/4/i386/aoetools-21-1.el4.i386.rpm

Once installed:

modprobe aoe

aoe-stat

should show whether there are any suitable devices on the network.
Output should be similar to this:

e0.0 160.041GB eth0 up

You can then check for the device "e0.0" like this:

ll /dev/etherd/e*

Then mount:

mount /dev/etherd/e0.0 /mnt/xx_wherever_xx/

We tried some large file copies over a 100MB connection. The device has
a GB interface and I really need to test the speed on a GB switch.

Hope that helps.

Michael Doerner

P.S.: I used a Welland enclosure and I am pretty sure it is exactly the
model you asked for.

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