sharing a single disk....

[Bliss, Kevin L]

Standard Volume Manager (I haven't used any clustering or HA add ons) is
supposed to not allow sharing of disk groups (therefore not disks, or
partitions).   Is there an undocumented method of accomplishing this?

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Doug Hughes [SMTP:Doug.Hughes@Eng.Auburn.EDU]
> Sent:	Tuesday, July 20, 1999 8:44 AM
> To:	ssa-managers@Eng.Auburn.EDU
> Subject:	Re: sharing a single disk.... 
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> 
> >
> >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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