Re: host (multibus) failover
M.Brands (shrike@il.fontys.nl)
Mon, 17 May 1999 00:48:18 +0200
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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