Sorry if this has been covered here in the past. Searches of
various linux mlists for "multi|initiator|reserve|release" failed to
turn up anything (recent) that looked particularly related, so here goes...
There's been some recent discussion and questions 'round here
about multi-initiator setups on linux. From what I can determine,
the linux scsi mid-layer doesn't do any sort of RESERVE / RELEASE
stuff. (RESERVE_10, RELEASE_10 weren't even defined in
<scsi/scsi.h> until very recently).
So with two or three linux systems attached to the same fibre channel
(loop in this case:-), I can mount the same target (ext2 f.s.) from
any+all the systems and (blindly+) merrily work away...
while eventual multiple writes clobber the file system, right?
Or is this handled via some other mechanism?
+ Driver(s) responsible for handling any+all multi-initiator issues.
+ LVM, clustering, or somesuch?
Thanks,
-SteveR
