From 6c6b61fe830c4c9810280f39c7a8298ab63e6fa4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christian Wiese Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2012 11:47:41 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] vblade: improved package description and taking over maintainship --- network/vblade/vblade.desc | 17 ++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/network/vblade/vblade.desc b/network/vblade/vblade.desc index 75de53f14..e4cdcaaf3 100644 --- a/network/vblade/vblade.desc +++ b/network/vblade/vblade.desc @@ -1,9 +1,8 @@ - [COPY] --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-BEGIN --- [COPY] This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch. [COPY] [COPY] Filename: package/.../vblade/vblade.desc -[COPY] Copyright (C) 2006 The OpenSDE Project +[COPY] Copyright (C) 2006 - 2012 The OpenSDE Project [COPY] Copyright (C) 2004 - 2006 The T2 SDE Project [COPY] [COPY] More information can be found in the files COPYING and README. @@ -14,15 +13,20 @@ [COPY] GNU General Public License can be found in the file COPYING. [COPY] --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END --- -[I] Export data via ATA over Ethernet +[I] A virtual EtherDrive (R) blade daemon -[T] The vblade command starts a process that uses raw sockets to perform ATA -[T] over Ethernet, acting like a virtual EtherDrive (R) blade. +[T] The vblade is the virtual EtherDrive (R) blade, a program that makes a +[T] seekable file available over an ethernet local area network (LAN) via +[T] the ATA over Ethernet (AoE) protocol. +[T] The seekable file is typically a block device like /dev/md0 but even +[T] regular files will work. When vblade exports the block storage over AoE +[T] it becomes a storage target. Another host on the same LAN can access +[T] the storage if it has a compatible aoe kernel driver. [U] http://aoetools.sourceforge.net/ [A] Ed L. Cashin -[M] The OpenSDE Community +[M] Christian Wiese [C] extra/network @@ -32,4 +36,3 @@ [P] X -----5---9 139.000 [D] 3183963705 vblade-13.tar.gz http://dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/aoetools/ -