----- Original Message ----- > > 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? > >
It uses a lock manager, which requires an IP network to communicate. Though isn't there some way to do IP over the storage network? _______________________________________________ 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/
