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| author | Max Khon <fjoe@FreeBSD.org> | 2010-09-14 13:33:53 +0000 |
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| committer | Max Khon <fjoe@FreeBSD.org> | 2010-09-14 13:33:53 +0000 |
| commit | da8f955a78311a3e1ccd014d576d842f7d0a729b (patch) | |
| tree | 44c4810c388f696d2c9f73403295e79be3473bde /net/vblade/pkg-descr | |
| parent | d35ce612b151dc1c7689bd42b55904af2803cf27 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/net/vblade/pkg-descr b/net/vblade/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..f0abd7962e0f --- /dev/null +++ b/net/vblade/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +The vblade is the virtual EtherDrive (R) blade, a program that makes a +seekable file available over an ethernet local area network (LAN) via +the ATA over Ethernet (AoE) protocol. + +The seekable file is typically a block device like /dev/md0 but even +regular files will work. Sparse files can be especially convenient. +When vblade exports the block storage over AoE it becomes a storage +target. Another host on the same LAN can access the storage if it has +a compatible aoe kernel driver. + +WWW: http://aoetools.sourceforge.net/ |