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Subject: Re: cluster FS?
From: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@mail.turbofuzz.com>
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> On Oct 1, 2014, at 12:02 PM, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bris.ac.uk> =
wrote:
>=20
> So are you saying that the SAN model
> is not good for active/active failover
> with multiple nodes?

Correct.  SAN is active/passive.

For more information on high availability solutions, I suggest you check =
out the big file server vendors - there=E2=80=99s far more pertinent =
information in their various whitepapers then you=E2=80=99ll ever get on =
freebsd-hackers. :)

- Jordan