From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 28 3:34:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cygnus.rush.net (cygnus.rush.net [209.45.245.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E20014C39 for ; Mon, 28 Jun 1999 03:34:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@rush.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by cygnus.rush.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id GAA01651; Mon, 28 Jun 1999 06:37:49 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 05:37:47 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: "Roman D. Sinyuk" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sharing FS between FreeBSD boxes In-Reply-To: <199906271515.SAA40684@titanic.uninet.kiev.ua> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, Roman D. Sinyuk wrote: > Hi All! > > Can I share file system between two (or more) FreeBSD boxes connected via > SCSI bus, or it's impossible? As far as I know, only in read only mode. What you can do is NFS mount the other box, and if a failure occurs trip a ups to shut off the other box, fsck it and mount the drive. This is how one 2 machine failover boxes are setup at work. -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@rush.net|bright@wintelcom.net] systems administrator and programmer Win Telecom - http://www.wintelcom.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message