Re: Removable media bug

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 5 May 1999 13:07:23 +0100 (BST)


> The bug that the kernel assumes things which it cannot guarantee,
> specifically that there are no two computers on the same scsi cable, which
> is possible.

It is. But to support that setup you require modified scsi controllers to
avoid bus reset chaos, and you would need to disable all caching. You
don't want to do that.

Shared disk file systems are a very specialised area

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