Looks like you want the vblade-persist package for Debian. "This framework uses runit to supervise permanent exports of AoE block devices. It gives administrators simple, fine-grained, easily-automatable control over which devices should be actively exported under which AoE shelfs and slots." Or if you have a simple setup you could just copy over one of the existing init scripts in /etc/init.d/ and start vblade that way.