On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:04:29 +0000, Phil Cook wrote:

> And lo on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:53:58 -0000, Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom>
> did spake, saying:
> 
>> Phil Cook wrote:
>>> I'm confused - can't the big disk machine access the tape drive
>>> directly over the network?
>>
>> No. How would you do that?
> 
> As part of a SAN

Well, if the tape device was, that would be one way.  I didn't assume 
that when I thought of my answer, which would be just to export the big 
disk machine's filesystem to the small disk machine using NFS.

Jim

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