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Using ATA Over Ethernet On Debian Etch Imagine you have a machine with all of its disk full and another with unused gigabytes, and you don't want to move the data from one to the other. Why not using the second's disk on the first, you can do it with iSCSI but you can do it with ATA over Ethernet (AoE) too. It's the second method I'll explain in this article. All of this was made with two computers running Debian Etch.
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Nice - I'm keen to start using AoE - it seems so much simpler than iSCSI.
How would you go about making the export of the partition on the target machine persistent? (i.e. survive a restart)?
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.