[Beowulf] Re: newbie's dilemma / Firewire? (Andrew Piskorski)

[Joel Jaeggli]

On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Daniel Pfenniger wrote:

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> Ed Karns wrote:
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>> Out of the box anyone can simply connect two or more Apple OSX machines 
>> together via FireWire cabling and update applications and transfer files. 
>> Rebooting one system makes it appear on other systems as an "external 
>> drive", 
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> Is reboot really necessary or just a ritual imposed by lazy OS designers?

In order for two systems to have block-level-access to the same disk a 
consistency management layer is required that does not in general exist. 
apart from that, yes.

block-level-filesystem managers are common enough in san applications, and 
apple actually sells one (xsan) but none of the firewire stuff leverages 
that.

> 	Dan
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