> I would suggest that what you describe is not shared.  First, you would
> have to size each LUN appropriately for each server.  Some LUNs will
> always be too big, and some LUNs will always be too small.

Not if you use the same filesystem, just different directories.

>  In addition,
> you can't have storage node A back up to disk slice A, then have storage
> node B clone storage node A's backups, cause it can't see them.  If you
> could, that would be sharing.

Do you really need that?

Best
Dag

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