On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 14:26, Thomas Cameron wrote: > I know zero about firewire - I've never used it or even touched it. > > I have read that you can set up clustering on an external firewire drive > connected to two Linux machines. What I don't know is how to do it - I > know nothing about firewire, historically being a USB user. This is *not* > for a production environment - it is for my own education at home. > > What hardware do I need to use to let a single external firewire disk be > accessed by two Linux servers at the same time? I figure I need the > external enclosure, a firewire card for each server, and some sort of a > firewire hub (if there is such a thing). Am I on the right track? > > Anyone done this and had any experiences good or bad? I haven't done it, although I have some not-very-good experience with trying to run software RAID1 between an internal IDE drive and and external firewire, but this article might be what you want: http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/hunter_rac10g.html -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
