Subject: Re: sharing disks on the same bus with multiple hosts
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
From: Rhialto <rhialto@azenomei.knuffel.net>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/09/2004 23:32:54
On Fri 09 Apr 2004 at 13:56:41 -0700, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> This requires some complex coordination.  For starters, we would need 
> to support the SCSI RESERVE/RELEASE (older) and newer persistent 
> reservation commands.  Then other software (like the file system) has 
> to be taught how to use them.  That can be Very Hard for fairly simple, 
> depending on the sharing model you want to employ.

Can't you simply limit each partition to one host each? Perhaps that was
not really the question, but as far as I am aware that is the most that
is currently going to work.

>         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
-Olaf.
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