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+Introduction
+============
+
+ATA over Ethernet is a network protocol that provides simple access to
+block storage on the LAN.
+
+  http://support.coraid.com/documents/AoEr11.txt
+
+The EtherDrive (R) HOWTO for 2.6 and 3.x kernels is found at ...
+
+  http://support.coraid.com/support/linux/EtherDrive-2.6-HOWTO.html
+
+It has many tips and hints!  Please see, especially, recommended
+tunings for virtual memory:
+
+  http://support.coraid.com/support/linux/EtherDrive-2.6-HOWTO-5.html#ss5.19
+
+The aoetools are userland programs that are designed to work with this
+driver.  The aoetools are on sourceforge.
+
+  http://aoetools.sourceforge.net/
+
+The scripts in this Documentation/admin-guide/aoe directory are intended to
+document the use of the driver and are not necessary if you install
+the aoetools.
+
+
+Creating Device Nodes
+=====================
+
+  Users of udev should find the block device nodes created
+  automatically, but to create all the necessary device nodes, use the
+  udev configuration rules provided in udev.txt (in this directory).
+
+  There is a udev-install.sh script that shows how to install these
+  rules on your system.
+
+  There is also an autoload script that shows how to edit
+  /etc/modprobe.d/aoe.conf to ensure that the aoe module is loaded when
+  necessary.  Preloading the aoe module is preferable to autoloading,
+  however, because AoE discovery takes a few seconds.  It can be
+  confusing when an AoE device is not present the first time the a
+  command is run but appears a second later.
+
+Using Device Nodes
+==================
+
+  "cat /dev/etherd/err" blocks, waiting for error diagnostic output,
+  like any retransmitted packets.
+
+  "echo eth2 eth4 > /dev/etherd/interfaces" tells the aoe driver to
+  limit ATA over Ethernet traffic to eth2 and eth4.  AoE traffic from
+  untrusted networks should be ignored as a matter of security.  See
+  also the aoe_iflist driver option described below.
+
+  "echo > /dev/etherd/discover" tells the driver to find out what AoE
+  devices are available.
+
+  In the future these character devices may disappear and be replaced
+  by sysfs counterparts.  Using the commands in aoetools insulates
+  users from these implementation details.
+
+  The block devices are named like this::
+
+	e{shelf}.{slot}
+	e{shelf}.{slot}p{part}
+
+  ... so that "e0.2" is the third blade from the left (slot 2) in the
+  first shelf (shelf address zero).  That's the whole disk.  The first
+  partition on that disk would be "e0.2p1".
+
+Using sysfs
+===========
+
+  Each aoe block device in /sys/block has the extra attributes of
+  state, mac, and netif.  The state attribute is "up" when the device
+  is ready for I/O and "down" if detected but unusable.  The
+  "down,closewait" state shows that the device is still open and
+  cannot come up again until it has been closed.
+
+  The mac attribute is the ethernet address of the remote AoE device.
+  The netif attribute is the network interface on the localhost
+  through which we are communicating with the remote AoE device.
+
+  There is a script in this directory that formats this information in
+  a convenient way.  Users with aoetools should use the aoe-stat
+  command::
+
+    root@makki root# sh Documentation/admin-guide/aoe/status.sh
+       e10.0            eth3              up
+       e10.1            eth3              up
+       e10.2            eth3              up
+       e10.3            eth3              up
+       e10.4            eth3              up
+       e10.5            eth3              up
+       e10.6            eth3              up
+       e10.7            eth3              up
+       e10.8            eth3              up
+       e10.9            eth3              up
+        e4.0            eth1              up
+        e4.1            eth1              up
+        e4.2            eth1              up
+        e4.3            eth1              up
+        e4.4            eth1              up
+        e4.5            eth1              up
+        e4.6            eth1              up
+        e4.7            eth1              up
+        e4.8            eth1              up
+        e4.9            eth1              up
+
+  Use /sys/module/aoe/parameters/aoe_iflist (or better, the driver
+  option discussed below) instead of /dev/etherd/interfaces to limit
+  AoE traffic to the network interfaces in the given
+  whitespace-separated list.  Unlike the old character device, the
+  sysfs entry can be read from as well as written to.
+
+  It's helpful to trigger discovery after setting the list of allowed
+  interfaces.  The aoetools package provides an aoe-discover script
+  for this purpose.  You can also directly use the
+  /dev/etherd/discover special file described above.
+
+Driver Options
+==============
+
+  There is a boot option for the built-in aoe driver and a
+  corresponding module parameter, aoe_iflist.  Without this option,
+  all network interfaces may be used for ATA over Ethernet.  Here is a
+  usage example for the module parameter::
+
+    modprobe aoe_iflist="eth1 eth3"
+
+  The aoe_deadsecs module parameter determines the maximum number of
+  seconds that the driver will wait for an AoE device to provide a
+  response to an AoE command.  After aoe_deadsecs seconds have
+  elapsed, the AoE device will be marked as "down".  A value of zero
+  is supported for testing purposes and makes the aoe driver keep
+  trying AoE commands forever.
+
+  The aoe_maxout module parameter has a default of 128.  This is the
+  maximum number of unresponded packets that will be sent to an AoE
+  target at one time.
+
+  The aoe_dyndevs module parameter defaults to 1, meaning that the
+  driver will assign a block device minor number to a discovered AoE
+  target based on the order of its discovery.  With dynamic minor
+  device numbers in use, a greater range of AoE shelf and slot
+  addresses can be supported.  Users with udev will never have to
+  think about minor numbers.  Using aoe_dyndevs=0 allows device nodes
+  to be pre-created using a static minor-number scheme with the
+  aoe-mkshelf script in the aoetools.