VAXclusters and UN*X

[Dave Cohrs]

A while back I posted the following message:

> Has any work been done to make a version of UN*X that can work with
> VAXclusters and takes advantage of the resource sharing involved?
> If I get a large enough response (i.e. anything) I'll summarize and
> post.

Well, I got a 'why would you want to do that' message and the following
replies:

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| From: uwvax!seismo!noao!grandi (Steve Grandi)
| 
| I asked the DEC Ultrix folks at the Anaheim Decus about this and was
| told to not hold my breath; the mongol hordes that build VMS took
| years to make their cluster support work, so the relative few working
| on Ultrix have a lot to do!  
| 
| Actually, if you have followed discussions of using dual ported disks
| under Unix you will see how hard a problem a cluster would be to do
| right---how do you do disk block caching for the shared disks?
| 
| Since we really wanted the cluster, we had to order our 8600 with VMS;
| a REAL pity!
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| From: uwvax!ihnp4!houxm!hou2b!garys (Gary Seubert)
| 
| I believe Dave Leonard (DEC) and members of his group are working on a
| driver for the HSC50. They are the ones who did the System V RA81
| driver. You might try contacting them thru DEC in Holmdel. We run 6
| VAXes with RA81/TU78 configuration and are anxiously (to say the least)
| awaiting word from Dave as to their progress.
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The fact that nothing is available is about what I expected.
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dave cohrs
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