Re: Sharing disks across machines

Posted in 2004

Eric Rowell — Tue, 13 Apr 2004 08:54:54 -0400 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

The systems both can see the disks but only one can access for write. On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 06:53, 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...) > > Jonathan Leffler <jleffler@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:<2aKec.7648$A_4.6070@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net>... > > > 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. > sending to informix-list