[Info-vax] free shell accounts?

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2015-01-23 13:22:28 +0000, John E. Malmberg said:

> I do not think Deathrow is using shadowing.

Deathrow is not using shadowing.  Not enough hardware for that.

> High availability clusters use either host based shadowing or SAN based 
> volume replication so that there is no single point of failure.

Yep.  Some lower-end configurations use shared SCSI, older clusters 
used shared DSSI here.

> I have never seen a configuration were only a partial volume was 
> served, and I do not think that software stripe sets will allow it.

OpenVMS doesn't like partial volumes, nor — beyond what was necessary 
to get Itanium port working — does VMS support disk partitioning.


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