Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 May 1999 00:48:18 +0200 | From | "M.Brands" <> | Subject | Re: host (multibus) failover |
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On Fri, May 14, 1999 at 02:34:24AM -0500, Chris Smith allegedly wrote: > Hi, > > Okay, I just looked everywhere I could think of and didn't see anything > mentioned about support in Linux for a multibus failover configuration. > Basically, a disk would be accessible on several host adapters (SCSI > adapters, whatever) and can be accessed through whichever ones work. This > technique is used in (at least) VMS and NT to get more redundancy in > several high-end storage systems, Digital StorageWorks being the one I know > about. I'm interested in implementing this for Linux, but a few questions > first. > > 1. Is this done? Did I miss it somewhere? I'd hate to duplicate someone's > work.
I think there is such a think and it's called the Global File System (GFS). I think I came across it while reading through some Linux High Availability (HA) stuff.
Sorry I don't have anything more useful.
Mathijs
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