<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Mar 7, 2006, at 12:00 PM, <A href="mailto:beowulf-request@beowulf.org">beowulf-request@beowulf.org</A> wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande">In order for two systems to have block-level-access to the same disk a<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande">consistency management layer is required that does not in general exist.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande">apart from that, yes.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Lucida Grande; min-height: 16.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande">block-level-filesystem managers are common enough in san applications, and<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande">apple actually sells one (xsan) but none of the firewire stuff leverages<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande">that.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Lucida Grande"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Lucida Grande"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Lucida Grande">Unibrain.com does "leverage" FireWire hardward : <A href="http://unibrain.com/products/driverapi/firenet.htm">http://unibrain.com/products/driverapi/firenet.htm</A> which does have file management for FireWire networks on Wintel & Mac & Linux / Unix ...</P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Lucida Grande"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Lucida Grande">Ed Karns</P></DIV>FireWireStuff.com<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BODY></HTML>