> 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? _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
