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Date:      Sat, 28 Feb 1998 22:44:25 -0800 (PST)
From:      Javier Henderson <javier@kjsl.com>
To:        Robert Watson <robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org>
Cc:        Javier Henderson <javier@kjsl.com>, Christopher J Ceska <chris@u2.todiefor.com>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Question
Message-ID:  <199803010644.WAA18503@kjsl.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980301011555.25827D-100000@trojanhorse.pr.watson.org>
References:  <199803010551.VAA18342@kjsl.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980301011555.25827D-100000@trojanhorse.pr.watson.org>

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Robert Watson writes:

 > I'm not familiar with the VMS clustering behavior -- what services does it
 > provide?

	You can mount disk drives across the clusters. There's a
distributed lock manager, which is what allows the transparent sharing
of resources across the cluster members.

	Most clusters have a shared authorization file, though you can
have node-specific files as well.

	You can have multiple hosts and disk drives on the same SCSI
bus, and even if one node crashes, the remaining nodes' access to the
disk drives remains undisturbed in most cases. Any node can also serve
disk drives to the cluster, though of course those drives would go
away if the node crashes.

	That's in a very small nutshell. There's lots more.

-jav

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