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Re: [Xen-users] AoE (Was: iscsi vs nfs for xen VMs)

Javier Guerra Giraldez wrote:

 > Getting somewhat off-topic, but I'm interested to know how AoE handles
 network errors ? I assume there is some handshake to make sure packets were
 delivered, rather than just "fire and forget" !

AFAIK, it's handled by the disk drivers.  surprisingly, i see less
errors on my AoE disks than on some SATA drives

Ahh yes, that would make sense. I'd completely forgotten about error recovery in the normal disk drivers !
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