> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 7:25 PM
> 
> > Wait ... The firewall guys won't allow you to mount some remote storage,
> but
> > they will allow you to read it and write it?  How is that even possible?
> 
> The IP network guys have strong restrictions over boxes talking to each
> other over ethernet
> 
> the SAN network guys have a big, flat, fiberchannel network with no
> controls.
> 
> As a result, two boxes that can't talk to each other on the network can
> setup a "covert channel" to bypass the access policies and talk to each
> other over the SAN.

Wait - In GFS, do the nodes actually talk to each other?  Or do they both
just talk to the storage, separately and independently of each other?


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