> 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:
for info about GFS...
/David Weinehall
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