Re: Sharing disks across machines

"Neil Truby" <neil.truby@ardenta.com> wrote in message news:<c510n9$2o3b8k$1@ID-162943.news.uni-berlin.de>... > What's the requirement? > To have an engine on each server looking at both sets of disks > simultaeously? I'm not sure, I think so, I'm seriously struggling to find anything that would put the balance sheet from doing so into credit. In fact, ideally I'd like to be able to go to the meeting and tell them categorically it won't work, which Eric's response seems to suggest it won't ...

"Andy Kent" <andykent.bristol1095@virgin.net> wrote in message news:ac5fb36.0404080200.731b96c3@posting.google.com... > "Neil Truby" <neil.truby@ardenta.com> wrote in message news:<c510n9$2o3b8k$1@ID-162943.news.uni-berlin.de>... > > What's the requirement? > > To have an engine on each server looking at both sets of disks > > simultaeously? > > I'm not sure, I think so, I'm seriously struggling to find anything > that would put the balance sheet from doing so into credit. > > In fact, ideally I'd like to be able to go to the meeting and tell > them categorically it won't work, which Eric's response seems to > suggest it won't ... Well, he's right of course, it won't work. You can't have two processes that know nothing about one another writing to the same set of disks.