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Originally Posted by macula  That's right. But this problem has been addressed in computer networking (many computers accessing the same disk). Perhaps then the solution would be to equip recorders with networking capabilities (e.g. wifi or ethernet)... Not very cost-effective, certainly, but it would be very convenient. |
To be precise, it's not the networking hardware that fixes it, it's the networked file system (AFS/NFS/etc.) that has all of the exclusion primitives that makes this sort of thing work (with the attendant decreases in performance.)
It could be done with a software update, but it's not clear how intrusive this would be, software-wise (O/S upgrade? application awareness?), nor whether the appliance would still perform adequately in its primary role.