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From: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
To: Steven Dake <sdake@mvista.com>
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Subject: Re: RFC - new raid superblock layout for md driver
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On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 10:05:29AM -0700, Steven Dake wrote:
> per-device structure.  This would allow a RAID volume to be locked to a 
> specific host, allowing the ability for true multihost operation.

	Locking to a specific host isn't the only thing to do though.
Allowing multiple hosts to share the disk is quite interesting as well.

Joel


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