Using ATA Over Ethernet (AoE) On Ubuntu 10.04 (Initiator And Target) - Page 2

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Submitted by falko (Contact Author) (Forums) on Tue, 2010-08-24 16:31. ::

4 Setting Up The Initiator (server1)

server1:

On server1, we install the initiator:

aptitude install aoetools

Now we check what AoE storage devices are available:

aoe-discover

The command

aoe-stat

should now show the storage devices:

root@server1:~# aoe-stat
      e0.1        21.474GB   eth0 up
root@server1:~#

At this point we have a new block device available on the client box named /dev/etherd/e0.1. If we have a look at the /dev tree a new node appears:

ls -la /dev/etherd/

root@server1:~# ls -la /dev/etherd/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root     160 2010-08-13 16:24 .
drwxr-xr-x 16 root root    3800 2010-08-13 16:21 ..
c-w--w----  1 root disk 152,  3 2010-08-13 16:21 discover
brw-rw----  1 root disk 152, 16 2010-08-13 16:24 e0.1
cr--r-----  1 root disk 152,  2 2010-08-13 16:21 err
c-w--w----  1 root disk 152,  6 2010-08-13 16:21 flush
c-w--w----  1 root disk 152,  4 2010-08-13 16:21 interfaces
c-w--w----  1 root disk 152,  5 2010-08-13 16:21 revalidate
root@server1:~#

In the output of

fdisk -l

you should now also find the new hard drive:

root@server1:~# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 32.2 GB, 32212254720 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3916 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00016be9

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1          32      248832   83  Linux
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2              32        3917    31205377    5  Extended
/dev/sda5              32        3917    31205376   8e  Linux LVM

Disk /dev/etherd/e0.1: 21.5 GB, 21474836480 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2610 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/etherd/e0.1 doesn't contain a valid partition table
root@server1:~#

To use that device, we must format it:

fdisk /dev/etherd/e0.1

root@server1:~# fdisk /dev/etherd/e0.1
Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF disklabel
Building a new DOS disklabel with disk identifier 0x3093ae28.
Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them.
After that, of course, the previous content won't be recoverable.

Warning: invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 4 will be corrected by w(rite)

WARNING: DOS-compatible mode is deprecated. It's strongly recommended to
         switch off the mode (command 'c') and change display units to
         sectors (command 'u').

Command (m for help): <-- n
Command action
   e   extended
   p   primary partition (1-4)
<-- p
Partition number (1-4): <-- 1
First cylinder (1-2610, default 1): <-- ENTER
Using default value 1
Last cylinder, +cylinders or +size{K,M,G} (1-2610, default 2610): <-- ENTER
Using default value 2610

Command (m for help): <-- t
Selected partition 1
Hex code (type L to list codes): <-- 83

Command (m for help): <-- w
The partition table has been altered!

Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.
Syncing disks.
root@server1:~#

Afterwards, the output of

fdisk -l

should look as follows:

root@server1:~# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 32.2 GB, 32212254720 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3916 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00016be9

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1          32      248832   83  Linux
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2              32        3917    31205377    5  Extended
/dev/sda5              32        3917    31205376   8e  Linux LVM

Disk /dev/etherd/e0.1: 21.5 GB, 21474836480 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2610 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x3093ae28

            Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/etherd/e0.1p1               1        2610    20964793+  83  Linux
root@server1:~#

Now we create a filesystem on /dev/etherd/e0.1p1...

mkfs.ext4 /dev/etherd/e0.1p1

... and mount it for test purposes:

mount /dev/etherd/e0.1p1 /mnt

You should now see the new device in the outputs of...

mount

root@server1:~# mount
/dev/mapper/server1-root on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
none on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
none on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
none on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
none on /var/lib/ureadahead/debugfs type debugfs (rw,relatime)
/dev/sda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw)
/dev/etherd/e0.1p1 on /mnt type ext4 (rw)
root@server1:~#

... and

df -h

root@server1:~# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/server1-root
                       18G  838M   16G   5% /
none                  243M  180K  242M   1% /dev
none                  247M     0  247M   0% /dev/shm
none                  247M   32K  247M   1% /var/run
none                  247M     0  247M   0% /var/lock
none                  247M     0  247M   0% /lib/init/rw
none                   18G  838M   16G   5% /var/lib/ureadahead/debugfs
/dev/sda1             228M   17M  199M   8% /boot
/dev/etherd/e0.1p1     20G  172M   19G   1% /mnt
root@server1:~#

You can unmount it like this:

umount /mnt

To have the device mounted automatically at boot time, e.g. in the directory /storage, we create that directory...

mkdir /storage

... and add the following line to /etc/fstab:

vi /etc/fstab

[...]
/dev/etherd/e0.1p1       /storage        ext4    defaults,auto,_netdev 0 0

This alone isn't enough to have the device mounted at boot time because the AoE stuff gets loaded after /etc/fstab is read. Therefore we open /etc/rc.local...

vi /etc/rc.local

... and add the following lines to it (before the exit 0 line):

[...]
aoe-discover
sleep 5
mount -a
[...]

For test purposes, you can now reboot the system:

reboot

After the reboot, the device should be mounted:

mount

root@server1:~# mount
/dev/mapper/server1-root on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
none on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
none on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
none on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
none on /var/lib/ureadahead/debugfs type debugfs (rw,relatime)
/dev/sda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw)
/dev/etherd/e0.1p1 on /storage type ext4 (rw,_netdev)
root@server1:~#

df -h

root@server1:~# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/server1-root
                       18G  838M   16G   5% /
none                  243M  180K  242M   1% /dev
none                  247M     0  247M   0% /dev/shm
none                  247M   32K  247M   1% /var/run
none                  247M     0  247M   0% /var/lock
none                  247M     0  247M   0% /lib/init/rw
none                   18G  838M   16G   5% /var/lib/ureadahead/debugfs
/dev/sda1             228M   17M  199M   8% /boot
/dev/etherd/e0.1p1     20G  172M   19G   1% /storage
root@server1:~#

 

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There is also the
Submitted by Nicolas Jungers (not registered) on Sun, 2010-09-05 17:59.

There is also the vblade-persist package. And for what I understood from the reading of /etc/init.d/aoetools you don't need a rc.local entry. At least I don't need it :-) You should also stress that one need a Gb/s network with Jumbo frames on to get decent performances. Nicolas

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