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Re: firewire storage solution recommended



Hello "Jason Lim" <maillist@jasonlim.com>,

On Mon, 18 Feb 2002 17:20:35 +0800
"Jason Lim" <maillist@jasonlim.com> wrote:

> >
> > But if question is "can two hosts mount the same 1394 device (in R/W
> > mode) at the same time ?", the answer is definetly no. At least with
> > "conventional" FS (ext2/3, fat, etc.), for various reasons, including
> > : kernel level read/write cache, which can assume things about what's
> > on the drive and what's not (yet), no locking, etc.
> >

Then is there any explanation for the case of SAN? Multiple server use
fiber to access the same storage device. How come? Any good reference?

> 
> 
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Patrick Hsieh <pahud@pahud.net>

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