Hi, Thanks for those who responded: jhartzen@csc.com Justin Stringfellow Doug Otto Justin Stringfellow sysadmin@astro.su.se I may have missed one or two folks. Please forgive me. A good answer was provided by Justin and is quoted in the following: The "partition" _physically_ divides the hardware. You supply power individually to partitions, so it is possible to suffer a severe hardware issue (e.g. power fail) in a domain in one partition, and domains in the other partition to be unaffected. Creating a domain across a partition doesn't make sense; the only reason the concept of partitions exists is to allow the user to divorce one domain for another, e.g. for clustering within the same cabinet. By segmenting or partitioning your Sun Fire, you place some repeater boards, system boards, i/o etc into one partition, and the rest in the other. The address buses are split so that each partition has a individual bus. They physically cannot talk to each other, so domaining is impossible across the ---------------- Regards, Lin Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Fri Apr 5 18:14:21 2002
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