On Mar 7, 2006, at 12:00 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

In order for two systems to have block-level-access to the same disk a consistency management layer is required that does not in general exist. apart from that, yes.


block-level-filesystem managers are common enough in san applications, and apple actually sells one (xsan) but none of the firewire stuff leverages that.



Unibrain.com does "leverage" FireWire hardward : http://unibrain.com/products/driverapi/firenet.htm  which does have file management for FireWire networks on Wintel & Mac & Linux / Unix ...


Ed Karns

FireWireStuff.com

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