Ken Fuchs wrote: > On Thu, 26 May 2005, Florin Iucha wrote: > >>Do you have any links/references/howto on using Fiber Channel? I was >>interested in the same thing, but I did not find any good references. > > > Rather than using Fibre Channel (FC), one might consider ATA/SATA over > Ethernet (AoE). There's a good article on AoE in the June issue of > Linux Magazine. There's also a less technical article on AoE in the > June issue of Linux Journal. > > At least for new equipment, AoE network devices will be a about 1/10 the > cost of FC devices. > > Sincerely, > > Ken Fuchs <kfuchs at winternet.com> > Call me cynical, but it looks to me like ATA over Ethernet appears to be a standard invented by one vendor and implemented by one vendor, who also happened to write the article for Linux Journal (or Linux Magazine, can't remeber what I read).