[ILUG] Mulithost SCSI Question.

[Paul Jakma]

On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Colin Whittaker wrote:

> 
> Say I had 2 hosts A & B, both have a scsi card ( id's 7 & 6 repectivly )
> and a scsi disk ( id 0 ).
> 
> This disk has a single filesystem on it.
> 
> Can host A mount the fs rw and host B mount it ro.
> 
> If host A goes away for some reason ( crash etc ) can host B remount the
> fs rw or will much stuff break.
> 

try gfs -> www.globalfilesystem.org. designed exactly for this kind of
stuff. VALinux had a test cluster with 16 boxes accessing the same set of
disks... linear read performance..

let us know how it works if you try it.

> Colin
> 
>