On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Uncle George wrote:
> I am curious as to how the 2 diff systems will coordinate disk block usage (
> ie superblocks, inodes, and blocks of data. I think each system will think
> that IT owns the drive, and will use it accordingly.
> Even if u were to flush the cache, u will be probably overwriting the other
> systems data. :-/
> gat
AFAIK, you must set your drive in async. operating mode, to be able to write
the data immediatly. But I guess the performance will be severly degraded if
you do that....
>
> Krishna Sreehasam wrote:
>
> > hi,
> > I have a problem with syncing of data on to the SCSi disk. I have a
> > SCSI disk pack connected to two machines acting as a shared disk. The
> > problem is if I write data from one machine and then try to read it from
> > the other, the data is not visible. I mounted the partition on machine1
> > and then tried to write some data. It was visible then. Then, I unmounted
> > it and mounted the same partition from the machine2. The data which
> > I wrote was not visible there. I think it is a syncing problem. Any
> > ideas,explanations,suggestionsans solutions are extremely welcome. please
> > do mail me if you need any extra information.
> >
> > The hardware details are:
> >
> > (1) AHA-2940 Adaptec SCSI cards
> > (2) Intel P3 m/c's running on 2.2.12 kernel.
> > (3) Segate SCSI Disk in a Sun MultiPack
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
> > Krishna.S
> >
> > -------------------------------------------------------------
> > Krishna Sreehasam home address:
> > Senior Systems Engineer 19-12-501,
> > Wipro Infotech - Technology Solutions Bairagi Patteda,
> > 1st floor, Sequent India Development Center Tirupathi,A.P,
> > Sri, Chamundi Complex, Voice:
> > No. 26, Bommanahalli, Hosur Main Road, 91-8574-43968
> > Banglore 560068.
> > Voice: 91-80-5722293 ext:5243
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