Re: Sharing SAN Partition with multiple Linux Clients

On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 16:59:14 GMT, info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Andy)
wrote:

In article <xQc9i.15934$FN5.8470@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
n_simpson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx says...

Lon wrote:
Nik Simpson proclaimed:

You need something like SGIs CXFS clustered file system that can
manage multiple hosts trying to update the same filesystem.

... combined with some sort of OS to OS communication to keep the two
hosts from stepping on each other. Clustering technology. Some use a
common logging disk and some use private networks, etc.

All of which are implicit in the term "clustered file system"
--

Polyserve is / was probably the leading product in the Linux
"clustered file system" market but now that they've been aquired by HP
I'm not sure how / where you'd buy it

I would think you look to HP for it, no?


if you're looking for the same ability in Windows take A LOOK AT Sanbolic

Polyserve does Windows as does CXFS. In fact, the market leader in
Windows CFS is Polyserve by a huge margin.

~F

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