On Thursday, 20 July 2000 at 18:33:42 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote:
> On Thursday, 20 July 2000 at 9:55:13 +0100, Geoff Buckingham wrote:
>>
>> Does anybody with a knowledge of the vinum code have an opinion on
>> the amount of work involved in getting vinum to the point that
>> several JBODs in a FC switched fabric could be managed, as a vinum
>> volume, by one machine, and mounted ro by that machine and several
>> others on the switch fabric.
>
> I'd say "no work at all" as far as Vinum is concerned. The real issue
> is getting the drivers to present the individual drives to the
> system. That's a device driver issue, and I don't know enough about
> the current state of FC drivers to make a sensible comment. But I'd
> certainly be interested to hear more.
>
>> (writing to that volume is obviously a fs issue)
Oops, I missed the point here. Yes, the multiple R/O issue would make
it very difficult to write to it. I suspect that it would be almost
impossible to write while other systems had the volume open R/O. I'll
think about how that could be done, but it's not simple, if it's at
all possible.
Greg
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