There is more interest, just not vocal. May want to look at LVM2 and its ability to use tagging to control enablement of VGs. This way it is not HW dependent. -----Original Message----- From: linux-raid-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-raid-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chris Osicki Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 2:26 AM To: linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Question: array locking, possible? It looks like we are the only two md users interested in such a feature. Not enough to get Neil's attention ;-) Regards, Chris On Wed, 8 Feb 2006 21:45:33 +0100 Jure Peèar <pegasus@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 8 Feb 2006 11:55:49 +0100 > Chris Osicki <osk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > I was thinking about it, I have no idea how to do it on Linux if ever possible. > > I connect over fibre channel SAN, using QLogic QLA2312 HBAS, if it matters. > > > > Anyone any hints? > > I too am running a jbod with md raid between two machines. So far md never > caused any kind of problems, altough I did have situations where both > machines were syncing mirrors at once. > > If there's a little tool to reserve a disk via scsi, I'd like to know about > it too. Even a piece of code would be enough. > > > -- > > Jure Peèar > http://jure.pecar.org/ > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html