On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Tommi Virtanen <tommi.virtanen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 04:47, Upendra Moturi <upendra.m@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Can we create a rbd device without filesystem mounted and can it be a >> shared device. > > Yes. Yes. Note that if you do this, it's not well-coordinated — you may do a read and miss a write that's currently in progress from another client. Use flush or an equivalent command if you have multiple servers writing to the same region of an RBD mount! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html