From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Clements Subject: Re: Question: array locking, possible? Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 14:26:13 -0500 Message-ID: <43E8F455.2020800@steeleye.com> References: <20060207185517.7bc96486@mwdsp001.swissptt.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20060207185517.7bc96486@mwdsp001.swissptt.ch> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Chris Osicki Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Chris Osicki wrote: > The problem now is how to prevent somebody on the other host from > accidentally assembling the array. Because the result of doing so would > be something from strange to catastrophic ;-) > > To rephrase my question, is there any way to make it visible to the > other host that the array is up an running on the this host? I don't know how the storage boxes are attached to the servers, but you might be able to use SCSI reservations, if the storage supports them. -- Paul