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Shared disks were available ever since SCSI
Authored by: complex_number on Friday, June 08 2012 @ 01:24 PM EDT
There are numerous different SCSI Standards.
The most common were Single Ended. Only one bus master was allowed.

Later on, Differential SCSI allowed for Dual Hosting.(2 masters or CPU's)
Later (and cheaper) Dec Clusters could use SCSI as its cluster interconnect. You
could also use Ethernet as a cluster interconnect.
We had a 12 node Cluster all connected by Ethernet. THere were even diskless
cluster nodes.
All in the 1980's.


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Ubuntu & 'apt-get' are not the answer to Life, The Universe & Everything which
is of course, "42" or is it 1.618?

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And other more recent things too....
Authored by: tiger99 on Saturday, June 09 2012 @ 08:26 AM EDT
The useless Netgear SC-101 "toaster", which seemed to be a NAS box, turned out to actually be a SAN, using a daft OS and proprietary protocol, which made it Windoze only, but was shareable between many machines on the network. Therefore it was effectively a shared remote drive, or RAID pair of drives.

Netgear suffered severe damage to their reputation over that one. Performance was miserable, which may have been due to the Windoze drivers, or the OS, or the file system. They must have paid a lot of money for the proprietary code, while their competitors were making genuine NAS boxes, almost always based on FOSS including Samba, because it works universally and has no licensing cost.

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