Re: block device served over network connections
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 02:26:14AM -0700, Warren Turkal wrote:
> DDs,
>
> I am looking for some info on this subject. I have looked at both the aoetools
> and open-iscsi for a solution to the following problem.
>
> I have a block device that is served over aoe. Basically, I would like to take
> two of these devices (e0.0 and e1.0) and create a raid1 with software RAID.
> However, I am not really sure how to solve this one. I am emailing here
> because I think the infrastructure to do such a thing may not exist in
> Debian.
>
> The basic problem is the network devices that receive info related to the
> block device must be up early enough that the mdadm discovery has not
> happened. It would be fairly easy to right a script that simply
> does "ifconfig eth0 up" and performs discovery (additionally
> disabling /etc/rcS.d/S41aoetools and essentially doing my own thing), but I
> would like to know if there is official Debian infrastructure for this sort
> of thing.
Just rearrange the initscripts so that mdadm is ran _after_ aoetools.
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