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From: bigmac@erg.sri.com (Bryan McDonald)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: SNAKE CLUSTER(?)
Message-ID: <1991May2.223912.6789@erg.sri.com>
Date: 2 May 91 22:39:12 GMT
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In article <5570612@hpfcdc.HP.COM> perry@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Perry Scott) writes:
>Maybe "different" is the wrong word here.  At the lowest level, both are
>McKusik, except the 300/700 implements only one partition.  You can take
>a 300 or 700 disk and mount it on 300, 700, or 800.
>
>The 700 is meant to be a workstation, so it follows the 300 way of doing
>things.  Thus, you don't get partitions, you use "config" instead of
>uxgen, don't have disk mirroring, etc.  Previously, we could get away
>with just using CDFs in clusters to select the right behavior, but with
>both 700 and 800 using HP-PA, things will have to change a bit.


I was under the impression that the next HP-UX release was going
to have disk partitioning for the 300 series, so can I assume that
the 700's will as well?  And when will I see this?



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