Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 17 May 1999 16:14:17 +0200 (MET DST) | | From | David Weinehall <> | | Subject | Re: host (multibus) failover |
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On Mon, 17 May 1999, M.Brands wrote:
> 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.
I suggest you have a look at:
http://gfs.lcse.umn.edu/
for info about GFS...
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