Re: Sharing disks across machines

Andy Kent wrote: > Why? I thought you said elsewhere in the thread that both machines > *could* access the disks simultaneously. (Obviously, preferably not > the same disks and definitely not the same bit of the same disks...) It is possible to physically access the same disks. It is not advisable to do so. > Jonathan Leffler <jleffler@earthlink.net> wrote: >> The main issue is the start-up time because the secondary must be >> offline and not accessing the disks until the primary crashes. >> HDR avoids those problems. This scenario was slightly different - but not all that different. -- Jonathan Leffler #include <disclaimer.h> Email: jleffler@earthlink.net, jleffler@us.ibm.com Guardian of DBD::Informix v2003.04 -- http://dbi.perl.org/