Please help other AoE users by submitting your favorite scripts, configuration files, and tips. Send your submissions to Coraid Support. Submissions enter the public domain unless you specify otherwise.

The content here is provided without warranty, in hopes that it will prove helpful.

Documentation

• Booting debian lenny or etch from AoE Storage
  An example of booting debian lenny or etch systems from AoE storage.

• Making A Flexible Initial Ramdisk
  An example of booting from AoE storage.

• Using GPT Partition Tables
  

Tom Brown explains how he boots diskless Xen instances from AoE storage in this aoetools-discuss mailing list thread.

Scripts

Coraid does not support these contributed scripts. They have been released into the public domain (unless specified otherwise) by the authors to help other ATA over Ethernet users.

Once you understand what the scripts do and how they work, you should be able to create your own scripts. The "Shell" chapter in The 7th Edition UNIX Manual, Volume 2a is a concise introduction to the most portable shell programming techniques.

• aoe-chk-coraid.sh
  This sample bash shell script makes use of the aoeping and aoe-stat commands to check the status of one or more Coraid SR LUNs, emailing an administrator when appropriate.
• cec-chk-coraid.sh
  This bash shell script makes use of expect and the cec program to check the status of one or more CoRAID shelves, emailing an administrator when appropriate.

• aoe-init
  An init script for systems using multiple filesystems residing directly on AoE storage. (As opposed to using the AoE targets as RAID components or physical volumes for LVM.)
• scan-etherdrive
  Script to scan and mount AoE targets with filesystems on them. If a directory exists, the AoE-backed filesystem should be mounted.

• fence_aoemask
  An example script showing how to use the SR AoE extension that manipulates the mask of a Coraid SR LUN for cluster fencing purposes. The comment at the top of the script gives the copyright and licensing information. It also points out that this script uses the aoemask utility.

Patches

Coraid does not support these contributed patches. They have been released by the authors to help other ATA over Ethernet users.

• LVM1 patch for AoE
  This patch adds compatibility with AoE devices to the LVM1 software used on systems running the 2.4 kernel.

  public domain

• Add root filesystem on AoE support to aoe driver
  This patch to the 2.6.15 kernel allows the user to do a "make menuconfig", specifying an AoE device on which the booting kernel will attempt to find its root filesystem.

  GPL