From: Green, Simon (Simon.Green@EU.ALTRIA.COM)
Date: Wed Apr 16 2003 - 07:09:15 EDT
NFS would be the equivalent.
There are technologies to allow disks to be shared by multiple systems, but
they tend to be complicated and expensive. The hardware side of it is
simple enough: you can share a disk with simple SCSI connections, if you
want. The problem is one of locking: how do you make sure that two people
on different systems don't change the same data simultaneously?
With NFS - same as network drives on Windows, I guess - the locking is
handled by the server, which is relatively simple. (And that's a rather
simplistic explanation!)
Simon Green
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Arthur Prince [mailto:arthurp@TOTALISE.CO.UK]
> Sent: 16 April 2003 12:00
> To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> Subject: beginners question : network drives
>
>
> What is the equivalent on AIX to a Network drive as you have
> in Windows.
>
> If I want to share data between 2 AIX boxes what are my
> options. Is it only
> NFS?
> Do things like SAN or anything else allow 2 AIX servers to share data?
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