http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_file_systems#Shared_disk_file_systems

There they call them “Shared disk file systems” and had one of those been used to hold your vhd files, you might still be up.

I believe that such a filesystem is called a “cluster” filesystem, and while Linux has ‘Oracle’s Cluster Filesystem 2 (OCFS2)’ in the kernel, and Redhat has their “Global File System (GFS)” and VMWare has their “Virtual Machine File System (VMFS)”, Microsoft’s plain-old NTFS can’t do it… unless you install Microsoft Cluster Services.

If the filesystem was plain old NTFS, then as soon as one of the vhds grew, the machines would have an inconsistent view of the free space; the other machine would still think that space was free.

I’m surprised it ran as long as it did.

As an IT professional who supports two schools (one K-12, one vocational center), I have to say I generally agree with Matt’s take on teachers. Occasionally you get a some good ones, but I find many to be somewhat lazy technophobes.

As for Linksys/Cisco – Cisco did announce that they were dropping the Linksys brand, and promptly backpedaled when they realized that this would be a huge marketing blunder.

Also, I love hearing your rant episodes. It’s sort of a vicarious venting for me because we have so many similar gripes with service providers and hardware vendors.

Keep up the good work!

Peter

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Later,
Ryan