> Therefore, communications with a device such as a disk, by two separate
> computers, is not a problem. You can, in fact, use a common hard disk
> even to boot two different machines. The problems come if one or more of
> the machines tries to write to the disk.
>
> Machine 1 creates a file called /tmp/xxx
> Machine 2 creates a file called /tmp/xxx
Has anyone had any luck sharing a drive where each computer uses
a different partition?
DEC UNIX had code for sharing drives as part of its failover software
(often ended up more like fall-over though).
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