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On 4/13/06, Erik Mouw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 05:24:34PM -0400, Jon Miller wrote:
> > I have two machines which have redundant paths to the same shared scsi
> > disk. I've had no problem creating the multipath'ed device md0 to
> > handle my redundant pathing. But now I'd like to use a simple FS, such
> > as ext3, mounted rw on the first machine and ro on the second machine.
> > The idea is that the second machine, mounting the FS ro, would be able
> > to read any new data being written in the FS.
> > Everything has been rather easy to setup, but anything being created
> > on the FS is not seen on the other machine with the FS mounted ro.
> > That is, I can create a file on the first machine and I never see that
> > file from the second machine until I remount the FS.
> > At this point, I am actually trying to avoid GFS, OCFS, veritas
> > clustered FS options as well as NFS. If there was a simple hack, that
> > I'm missing, to enable the updates to the FS to be seen in realtime,
> > then I'd actually prefer that method.
> > Any help would be appreciated.
>
> I'm affraid the only way out is indeed GFS or OCFS. Those filesystems
> are specifically designed to be mounted by several hosts and (should)
> have caching and locking issues covered.
>
>
> Erik
>
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