Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!orchid!gamiddleton From: gamiddleton@orchid.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: ACCESS TO SHARED TAPEDRIVES Message-ID: <12046@orchid.waterloo.edu> Date: Sun, 6-Dec-87 18:10:59 EST Article-I.D.: orchid.12046 Posted: Sun Dec 6 18:10:59 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 12-Dec-87 04:53:43 EST References: <10542@brl-adm.ARPA> <271@cunixc.columbia.edu> <6740@brl-smoke.ARPA> <3254@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> <6802@brl-smoke.ARPA> Reply-To: gamiddleton@orchid.waterloo.edu (Guy Middleton) Organization: University of Waterloo [MFCF/ICR] Lines: 9 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.