Jure Pecar wrote: > Hi list, > > I recently came up with the need for the storage, shared between two > nodes; one would do all the r/w to it and the other would mount it r/o > and serve it to the client boxen. I think that this won't work because the box with the r/o filesystem will not see the changes that the other box does (caching etc.). > I want to use ext3 in this setup, since i trust it the most. My question > is: is this possible? How would the r/o node handle the metadata updates > that the r/w node would be doing? If there is some fundamental problem, > is any other fs currently capable of this? Again I think that especially ext3 will lead to major fs corruption because even if it is mounted r/o it will attempt to replay the journal at mount time. GFS or NFS might be what you are looking for. Cheers, Juri
