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On 2/3/2013 9:03 AM, Jukka A. Ukkonen wrote:
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> a multiply attached SCSI device can be used as the trusted 
For SANs or iSCSI  this can make some sense- but only if you really 
really trust the release mechanism (which I don't in any heterogeneous 
environment).

The other question to raise is how do you sensibly represent the disks 
to the non-winner node and field failed attempts to operate on the 
shared disk? In other words, how do percolate RESERVATION CONFLICT 
errors up to the application level?