Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Drunken mumblings [OFFTROPIC] | Date | Thu, 31 Dec 1998 15:52:56 -0500 | From | C S Hendrix <> |
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In message <Pine.LNX.3.95.981231083816.19308A-100000@chaos.analogic.com>, "Rich ard B. Johnson" writes:
> Therefore, communications with a device such as a disk, by two separate > computers, is not a problem. You can, in fact, use a common hard disk > even to boot two different machines. The problems come if one or more of > the machines tries to write to the disk. > > Machine 1 creates a file called /tmp/xxx > Machine 2 creates a file called /tmp/xxx
Has anyone had any luck sharing a drive where each computer uses a different partition?
DEC UNIX had code for sharing drives as part of its failover software (often ended up more like fall-over though).
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