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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/aoe/aoe.rst (renamed from Documentation/aoe/aoe.txt) | 65 | ||||
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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/aoe/index.rst | 19 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/aoe/todo.rst (renamed from Documentation/aoe/todo.txt) | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/aoe/udev.txt | 2 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/aoe/aoe.txt b/Documentation/aoe/aoe.rst index c71487d399d1..58747ecec71d 100644 --- a/Documentation/aoe/aoe.txt +++ b/Documentation/aoe/aoe.rst @@ -1,3 +1,6 @@ +Introduction +============ + ATA over Ethernet is a network protocol that provides simple access to block storage on the LAN. @@ -22,7 +25,8 @@ document the use of the driver and are not necessary if you install the aoetools. -CREATING DEVICE NODES +Creating Device Nodes +===================== Users of udev should find the block device nodes created automatically, but to create all the necessary device nodes, use the @@ -38,7 +42,8 @@ CREATING DEVICE NODES confusing when an AoE device is not present the first time the a command is run but appears a second later. -USING DEVICE NODES +Using Device Nodes +================== "cat /dev/etherd/err" blocks, waiting for error diagnostic output, like any retransmitted packets. @@ -55,7 +60,7 @@ USING DEVICE NODES by sysfs counterparts. Using the commands in aoetools insulates users from these implementation details. - The block devices are named like this: + The block devices are named like this:: e{shelf}.{slot} e{shelf}.{slot}p{part} @@ -64,7 +69,8 @@ USING DEVICE NODES first shelf (shelf address zero). That's the whole disk. The first partition on that disk would be "e0.2p1". -USING SYSFS +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 @@ -78,29 +84,29 @@ USING SYSFS 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/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 + command:: + + root@makki root# sh Documentation/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 @@ -113,12 +119,13 @@ USING SYSFS for this purpose. You can also directly use the /dev/etherd/discover special file described above. -DRIVER OPTIONS +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. + usage example for the module parameter:: modprobe aoe_iflist="eth1 eth3" diff --git a/Documentation/aoe/examples.rst b/Documentation/aoe/examples.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..91f3198e52c1 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/aoe/examples.rst @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +Example of udev rules +--------------------- + + .. include:: udev.txt + :literal: + +Example of udev install rules script +------------------------------------ + + .. literalinclude:: udev-install.sh + :language: shell + +Example script to get status +---------------------------- + + .. literalinclude:: status.sh + :language: shell + +Example of AoE autoload script +------------------------------ + + .. literalinclude:: autoload.sh + :language: shell diff --git a/Documentation/aoe/index.rst b/Documentation/aoe/index.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..4394b9b7913c --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/aoe/index.rst @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +:orphan: + +======================= +ATA over Ethernet (AoE) +======================= + +.. toctree:: + :maxdepth: 1 + + aoe + todo + examples + +.. only:: subproject and html + + Indices + ======= + + * :ref:`genindex` diff --git a/Documentation/aoe/todo.txt b/Documentation/aoe/todo.rst index c09dfad4aed8..dea8db5a33e1 100644 --- a/Documentation/aoe/todo.txt +++ b/Documentation/aoe/todo.rst @@ -1,3 +1,6 @@ +TODO +==== + There is a potential for deadlock when allocating a struct sk_buff for data that needs to be written out to aoe storage. If the data is being written from a dirty page in order to free that page, and if diff --git a/Documentation/aoe/udev.txt b/Documentation/aoe/udev.txt index 1f06daf03f5b..54feda5a0772 100644 --- a/Documentation/aoe/udev.txt +++ b/Documentation/aoe/udev.txt @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ # udev_rules="/etc/udev/rules.d/" # bash# ls /etc/udev/rules.d/ # 10-wacom.rules 50-udev.rules -# bash# cp /path/to/linux-2.6.xx/Documentation/aoe/udev.txt \ +# bash# cp /path/to/linux/Documentation/aoe/udev.txt \ # /etc/udev/rules.d/60-aoe.rules # |