Solaris Support Information

If you would like to receive important notifications of major system improvements, bugfixes, and solutions to potential problems, please email support@coraid.com and request to be placed on the Solaris announcement mailing list.

Solaris support is currently available for Solaris SPARC, versions 7-10 and Solaris x86, version 10.

Alert! - Users of ZFS should be aware that a bug exists in ZFS causing system crashes when a ZFS disk encounters persistent I/O errors. This bug has been verified using AoE targets as ZFS disks. Sun is aware of the problem and is said to be working on a solution.

Documentation

Documentation is contained within the package and will be installed in /opt/CORDaoe/doc. Man pages will also be installed.

Stable Driver
aoe-guide - Solaris ATA-over-Ethernet (AoE) Installation and Operation Guide
  This user guide details how to install and use the Solaris AoE driver.
aoe-impl - A tour of the Solaris ATA-over-Ethernet (AoE) implementation
  This document details the implementation and internals of the Solaris AoE driver.

Driver Downloads

CORDaoe-1.4-sparc.Z

This binary package is for SPARC hardware running Solaris 7 or later.

CORDaoe-1.4-x86.Z

This binary package is for x86 hardware running Solaris 10.

aoe-1.4.tar.gz

Driver source for the latest stable release of the driver.

Driver Changelog

Please see Release notes (section 1.2) in the Installation and Operation Guide for full release details. 

aoe-1.4, 20070820
	x86 hardware support
	support for DOS (fdisk) labels and encapsulated VTOC
	increase max outstanding frames
	update aoemon to report max outstanding frames
	additional user-escape hooks in startup script
	
aoe-1.3.3-beta, 20070606
	x86 hardware support

aoe-1.3.2, 20070417
	bugfix: fix packaging to include all manual entries
	ZFS support
	new aoeunlabel command
	aoe startup script empties /etc/aoe before starting
	aoestart allows /dev/ to be omitted in device name

aoe-1.3.1, 20070208
	bugfix: potential crash on ident of failed aoe target
	bugfix: set aoe version field in query-config packet
	jumbo frame support
	copious error checking
	replace all sprintf calls with snprintf
	internal documentation updated
	install guide documentation updated

aoe-1.3-prelim, 20061205
	reassessment of resource locking
	code cleanup

aoe-1.2-beta2, 20060919
	throughput advancements

aoe-1.2-beta, 20060211
	initial release

 

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