[PATCH 2.6.11.7] ATA-Over-Ethernet Root device

McMullan, Jason jason.mcmullan at timesys.com
Sat May 14 03:29:25 EST 2005


This patch allows you to use ATA Over Ethernet as your root device,
with 'root=/dev/etherd/eX.Y/disc'

Limited testing, just for review.

Advantages:
	1) Ext3 over AOE caches dirents, so it's faster and less network
	   traffic than NFS root
	2) Smaller than NFS root code (for embedded systems)
	3) Proper locking semantics with Ext3, ReiserFS, etc.

-- 
Jason McMullan <jason.mcmullan at timesys.com>
TimeSys Corporation

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