"John Drescher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Kjetil Torgrim Homme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> "Shad L. Lords" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> Item 1: Allow tape drives to be associated with autochanger >>> resource on different host >>> Note: A single robot controls multiple drives but is only connected >>> to one machine. It is currently possible to work around >>> things by having remote hosts issue mtx commands over ssh but >>> nothing prevents multiple mtx commands from being issued at >>> the same time. >> >> why not use something like >> >> ssh robotmaster "flock /var/run/mtx.lock mtx ..." >> >> as your tapechanger command? flock will wait until it gets a lock on >> the file, so there will never be two mtx processes running >> simultaneously.
> The reason is that he wants to split up his tape multi drive changer > so that the drives are on more than 1 machine to allow for higher > performance but at the same time he wants to have 1 changer resource > in bacula and send the jobs to the 1 changer. Well, he didn't say so, IMHO. You think he wants to schedule jobs against a single Storage naming the tape changer, and have Bacula figure out which SD to talk to? That's quite different from today's architecture, I think. -- regards, Kjetil T. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
