sharing a single disk....

[Doug Hughes]

>
>Hi Gurus,
>
>I've a sparc storage array SSA200 connected to
>tow Solaris servers thru fibre channel. is it possible
>for the servers to share a single disk but different
>slices like?
>
>c1t1d1s0,s1,s3,s4 	mounted on machine 1 for read/write
>c1t1d1s4,s6,s7		mounted on machine 2 for read/write
>
>is it recommeneded? is it ok to do this? what should one watch for?
>

I imagine this would be possible if you set them up as simple slices
in VxVM rather than using the whole disk and attaching it to one
system. I don't think you'd get support on it, so you'd be on your own,
but I think it would work.
(I'm sure it wouldn't be recommended as it's kind of esoteric)

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