On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 08:23:24AM +0100, Nicolas Bougues wrote: > On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 02:24:09AM +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote: > > Hello "Thomas R. Shemanske" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > > > I bought Datafab MD2-FW-USB External 2.5 IDE HDD Enclosure > > today and successfully work in my debian notebook. > > > > My question is-- is it possible to use 1394 HUB to connect > > some 1394 storage device and some Linux servers and make it > > a 1394-based NAS environment? Can two Linux servers mount > > the same 1394 storage device and access at the same time? > [snip] > 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. [snip]
They can if the filesystem is OpenGFS or something similar. See http://www.opengfs.org/ -- Michael Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]