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Re: multi-initiator?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Jacob)
Wed Jun 14 22:10:29 2000
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 19:06:04 -0700 (PDT)
From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
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To: "Ralston, Steve" <sralston@lsil.com>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
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On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Ralston, Steve wrote:
> Sorry if this has been covered here in the past. Searches of
> various linux mlists for "multi|initiator|reserve|release" failed to
> turn up anything (recent) that looked particularly related, so here goes...
>
> There's been some recent discussion and questions 'round here
> about multi-initiator setups on linux. From what I can determine,
> the linux scsi mid-layer doesn't do any sort of RESERVE / RELEASE
> stuff. (RESERVE_10, RELEASE_10 weren't even defined in
> <scsi/scsi.h> until very recently).
>
> So with two or three linux systems attached to the same fibre channel
> (loop in this case:-), I can mount the same target (ext2 f.s.) from
> any+all the systems and (blindly+) merrily work away...
> while eventual multiple writes clobber the file system, right?
Yes.
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