Re: shared images

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On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Harald Rößler <Harald.Roessler@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Together
>
> is there a description of how a shared image works in detail? Can such
> an image can be used for a shared file system on two virtual machine
> (KVM) to mount. In my case, write on one machine and read only on the
> other KVM.Are the changes are visible on the read only KVM?

The image is just striped across RADOS objects. In general you can
think of it behaving exactly like a hard drive connected to your
computer over iSCSI — a proper shared FS (eg, OCFS2) will work on top
of it, but there's no magic that makes running an ext4 mount on two
machines work...
-Greg
Software Engineer #42 @ http://inktank.com | http://ceph.com
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