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Using ATA Over Ethernet On Debian Etch

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 18, 2007

[ Thanks to Falko
Timme
for this link. ]

“Imagine you have a machine with all of its disk full and
another with unused gigabytes, and you don’t want to move the data
from one to the other. Why not using the second’s disk on the
first, you can do it with iSCSI but you can do it with ATA over
Ethernet (AoE) too. It’s the second method I’ll explain in this
article. All of this was made with two computers running Debian
Etch.

“First check if your running kernel has AoE…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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