Re: Simple IIGS-Mac network - boy i feel stupid

[kindall@falcon.ic.net (Jerry Kindall)]

Nels E Satterlund (Nels_E_Satterlund@ccm.fm.intel.com) wrote:
: >
: > In article <3otjt6$8al@news.ysu.edu>, Eric S. Ford <ag471@yfn.ysu.edu> wrote:
: > >BTW, is it possible (or worthwhile) to set up a network of two GS's only?  I
: > >currently have two systems in my house but only one functioning hard drive.

: A simple way to connect 2 GS might be just use 2 SCSI cards and
:  one drive. I do that to connect my ][ to my GS. I can get to 
: the same files from both computers.  You may have to boot one from
: floppies to make them happy.

If you are running GS/OS this is a really bad idea.  The reason being 
that GS/OS has a built-in cache for frequently-used blocks from the hard 
drive.  When you write files from one computer, the other computer has NO 
way of knowing which blocks were updated or whether the information in 
its cache is still valid.  Under some circumstances this can easily lead 
to directory corruption, file loss, and worse.

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