Cluster Harddrive Using Firewire?

Ironstorm asks: "Recently I've started to see Firewire harddrives being sold from companies like Maxtor & Western Digital and now I'm pondering firewire storage solutions for high-availability clusters. Does anyone know if it would be possible to share a harddrive between two cluster nodes on a Firewire bus? Or have a node mount another node's Firewire drive if the other node has failed?"

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Re:Drive lettering

[bonzoesc]

It can't - my /dev/hda0 partition is NTFS, and 9x doesn't have its' partition until way the hell out on /dev/hda6. If it followed the flags, it would not find a C: drive, since 9x can't mount NTFS. It would also not be able to find itself because it looks for itself on drive C.

9x follows its own queer way of assigning drive letters: /dev/hda1, if FAT, gets C:; /dev/hdb1, if FAT, gets D:; /dev/hdc1, if FAT, gets E:; /dev/hdd1, if FAT, gets F:; (here's where it gets gay) /dev/hda2, if FAT, gets G:. The first partition on a drive gets a drive letter before the second partition on the first drive.

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[JediTrainer]

Apparently, according to Maxtor (skip to Q-17), sharing of devices between multiple computers is not an available ability.