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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>2005-04-17 02:20:36 +0400
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/aoe/aoe.txt91
-rw-r--r--Documentation/aoe/autoload.sh17
-rw-r--r--Documentation/aoe/mkdevs.sh36
-rw-r--r--Documentation/aoe/mkshelf.sh25
-rw-r--r--Documentation/aoe/status.sh31
-rw-r--r--Documentation/aoe/udev-install.sh26
-rw-r--r--Documentation/aoe/udev.txt23
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diff --git a/Documentation/aoe/aoe.txt b/Documentation/aoe/aoe.txt
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+The EtherDrive (R) HOWTO for users of 2.6 kernels is found at ...
+
+ http://www.coraid.com/support/linux/EtherDrive-2.6-HOWTO.html
+
+ It has many tips and hints!
+
+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.
+
+ If you are not using udev, two scripts are provided in
+ Documentation/aoe as examples of static device node creation for
+ using the aoe driver.
+
+ rm -rf /dev/etherd
+ sh Documentation/aoe/mkdevs.sh /dev/etherd
+
+ ... or to make just one shelf's worth of block device nodes ...
+
+ sh Documentation/aoe/mkshelf.sh /dev/etherd 0
+
+ There is also an autoload script that shows how to edit
+ /etc/modprobe.conf to ensure that the aoe module is loaded when
+ necessary.
+
+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.
+
+ "echo > /dev/etherd/discover" tells the driver to find out what AoE
+ devices are available.
+
+ These character devices may disappear and be replaced by sysfs
+ counterparts, so distribution maintainers are encouraged to create
+ scripts that use these devices.
+
+ 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.
+
+ 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
diff --git a/Documentation/aoe/autoload.sh b/Documentation/aoe/autoload.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+# set aoe to autoload by installing the
+# aliases in /etc/modprobe.conf
+
+f=/etc/modprobe.conf
+
+if test ! -r $f || test ! -w $f; then
+ echo "cannot configure $f for module autoloading" 1>&2
+ exit 1
+fi
+
+grep major-152 $f >/dev/null
+if [ $? = 1 ]; then
+ echo alias block-major-152 aoe >> $f
+ echo alias char-major-152 aoe >> $f
+fi
+
diff --git a/Documentation/aoe/mkdevs.sh b/Documentation/aoe/mkdevs.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+n_shelves=${n_shelves:-10}
+n_partitions=${n_partitions:-16}
+
+if test "$#" != "1"; then
+ echo "Usage: sh `basename $0` {dir}" 1>&2
+ exit 1
+fi
+dir=$1
+
+MAJOR=152
+
+echo "Creating AoE devnode files in $dir ..."
+
+set -e
+
+mkdir -p $dir
+
+# (Status info is in sysfs. See status.sh.)
+# rm -f $dir/stat
+# mknod -m 0400 $dir/stat c $MAJOR 1
+rm -f $dir/err
+mknod -m 0400 $dir/err c $MAJOR 2
+rm -f $dir/discover
+mknod -m 0200 $dir/discover c $MAJOR 3
+rm -f $dir/interfaces
+mknod -m 0200 $dir/interfaces c $MAJOR 4
+
+export n_partitions
+mkshelf=`echo $0 | sed 's!mkdevs!mkshelf!'`
+i=0
+while test $i -lt $n_shelves; do
+ sh -xc "sh $mkshelf $dir $i"
+ i=`expr $i + 1`
+done
diff --git a/Documentation/aoe/mkshelf.sh b/Documentation/aoe/mkshelf.sh
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+#! /bin/sh
+
+if test "$#" != "2"; then
+ echo "Usage: sh `basename $0` {dir} {shelfaddress}" 1>&2
+ exit 1
+fi
+n_partitions=${n_partitions:-16}
+dir=$1
+shelf=$2
+MAJOR=152
+
+set -e
+
+minor=`echo 10 \* $shelf \* $n_partitions | bc`
+endp=`echo $n_partitions - 1 | bc`
+for slot in `seq 0 9`; do
+ for part in `seq 0 $endp`; do
+ name=e$shelf.$slot
+ test "$part" != "0" && name=${name}p$part
+ rm -f $dir/$name
+ mknod -m 0660 $dir/$name b $MAJOR $minor
+
+ minor=`expr $minor + 1`
+ done
+done
diff --git a/Documentation/aoe/status.sh b/Documentation/aoe/status.sh
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+#! /bin/sh
+# collate and present sysfs information about AoE storage
+
+set -e
+format="%8s\t%8s\t%8s\n"
+me=`basename $0`
+sysd=${sysfs_dir:-/sys}
+
+# printf "$format" device mac netif state
+
+# Suse 9.1 Pro doesn't put /sys in /etc/mtab
+#test -z "`mount | grep sysfs`" && {
+test ! -d "$sysd/block" && {
+ echo "$me Error: sysfs is not mounted" 1>&2
+ exit 1
+}
+test -z "`lsmod | grep '^aoe'`" && {
+ echo "$me Error: aoe module is not loaded" 1>&2
+ exit 1
+}
+
+for d in `ls -d $sysd/block/etherd* 2>/dev/null | grep -v p` end; do
+ # maybe ls comes up empty, so we use "end"
+ test $d = end && continue
+
+ dev=`echo "$d" | sed 's/.*!//'`
+ printf "$format" \
+ "$dev" \
+ "`cat \"$d/netif\"`" \
+ "`cat \"$d/state\"`"
+done | sort
diff --git a/Documentation/aoe/udev-install.sh b/Documentation/aoe/udev-install.sh
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+# install the aoe-specific udev rules from udev.txt into
+# the system's udev configuration
+#
+
+me="`basename $0`"
+
+# find udev.conf, often /etc/udev/udev.conf
+# (or environment can specify where to find udev.conf)
+#
+if test -z "$conf"; then
+ if test -r /etc/udev/udev.conf; then
+ conf=/etc/udev/udev.conf
+ else
+ conf="`find /etc -type f -name udev.conf 2> /dev/null`"
+ if test -z "$conf" || test ! -r "$conf"; then
+ echo "$me Error: no udev.conf found" 1>&2
+ exit 1
+ fi
+ fi
+fi
+
+# find the directory where udev rules are stored, often
+# /etc/udev/rules.d
+#
+rules_d="`sed -n '/^udev_rules=/{ s!udev_rules=!!; s!\"!!g; p; }' $conf`"
+test "$rules_d" && sh -xc "cp `dirname $0`/udev.txt $rules_d/60-aoe.rules"
diff --git a/Documentation/aoe/udev.txt b/Documentation/aoe/udev.txt
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+# These rules tell udev what device nodes to create for aoe support.
+# They may be installed along the following lines (adjusted to what
+# you see on your system).
+#
+# ecashin@makki ~$ su
+# Password:
+# bash# find /etc -type f -name udev.conf
+# /etc/udev/udev.conf
+# bash# grep udev_rules= /etc/udev/udev.conf
+# 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 \
+# /etc/udev/rules.d/60-aoe.rules
+#
+
+# aoe char devices
+SUBSYSTEM="aoe", KERNEL="discover", NAME="etherd/%k", GROUP="disk", MODE="0220"
+SUBSYSTEM="aoe", KERNEL="err", NAME="etherd/%k", GROUP="disk", MODE="0440"
+SUBSYSTEM="aoe", KERNEL="interfaces", NAME="etherd/%k", GROUP="disk", MODE="0220"
+
+# aoe block devices
+KERNEL="etherd*", NAME="%k", GROUP="disk"