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- From: F.Zwarts@KVI.NL ("Fred Zwarts, KVI, Groningen, NL.")
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Plans for mixed Alpha/VAX cluster with common system disk?
- Message-ID: <01GQSBYNA64Y9I497E@KVI.nl>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 09:04:14 GMT
- Article-I.D.: KVI.01GQSBYNA64Y9I497E
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- Because of curiousity and also a little need to plan our future I have the
- following question.
-
- I understood that DEC plans to allow mixed Alpha/VAX clusters in the future.
- Does anyone know whether this includes mixed clusters with a common system
- disk?
-
- I suspect that, in order to allow such a beast, the definition of SYS$SYSROOT,
- which now points to the equivalent of SYS$SPECIFIC and SYS$COMMON must be
- changed to something like a search list of
-
- SYS$SYSROOT ->
- SYS$NODE_SPECIFIC for e.g. MODPARAMS.DAT
- SYS$ARCHITECTURE_SPECIFIC for e.g. the .EXE files
- SYS$COMMON for e.g. HELPLIB.HLB, STARTUP.COM
-
- Would there be other technical problems with a common system disk for a mixed
- cluster? I suspect the boot block, or is it only used by VAX hardware?
-
- Fred Zwarts KVI, Groningen, Netherlands Internet: F.Zwarts@KVI.nl
- Phone: (+31)50-633619 Telefax: (+31)50-634003
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