On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 01:49:04PM -0500, Jonathan Higgins wrote:
> while setting up a Linux cluster, the procedure is asking me to provide
> 2 raw block devices that are shared between each node in the cluster..
> ie /dev/sda5..

No, Coda provides a distributed filesystem, not a distributed block
device. (different layer in the kernel)

You might want to look at things like

ENBD, http://www.it.uc3m.es/ptb/enbd/
GPFS, http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/clusters/software/gpfs.html

Jan