On 4/19/05, Mohan, Ross <[email protected]> wrote:
> Clustered file systems is the first/best example that
> comes to mind. Host A and Host B can both request from diskfarm, eg.
Something like a Global File System?
http://www.redhat.com/software/rha/gfs/
(I believe some other company did develop it some time in the past;
hmm, probably the guys doing LVM stuff?).
Anyway the idea is that two machines have same filesystem mounted and
they share it. The locking I believe is handled by communication
between computers using "host to host" SCSI commands.
I never used it, I've only heard about it from a friend who used to
work with it in CERN.
Regards,
Dawid
