Re: RFC - new raid superblock layout for md driver

Joel Becker (Joel.Becker@oracle.com)
Thu, 21 Nov 2002 11:36:54 -0800


On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 10:05:29AM -0700, Steven Dake wrote:
> per-device structure. This would allow a RAID volume to be locked to a
> specific host, allowing the ability for true multihost operation.

Locking to a specific host isn't the only thing to do though.
Allowing multiple hosts to share the disk is quite interesting as well.

Joel

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