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From: gamiddleton@orchid.UUCP
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Subject: Re: ACCESS TO SHARED TAPEDRIVES
Message-ID: <12046@orchid.waterloo.edu>
Date: Sun, 6-Dec-87 18:10:59 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec  6 18:10:59 1987
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Reply-To: gamiddleton@orchid.waterloo.edu (Guy Middleton)
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In article <6802@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) ) writes:
> Why in the world use networking stuff?  My idea was to have a list of
> controlled resources, which would be file-locked by the allocator,
> which in turn would not be a daemon but would run when necessary.

It is necessary to use the network stuff because of the possibility that a
single tape drive may be connected to two or more machines.  If somebody on
machine A is using a shared drive, then machine B has to be told not to
allocate it to anybody.