On Nov 03, 2005 13:18 -0800, Jeff Dinisco wrote: > I have an ext3 filesystem mounted r/w on 1 host and r/o on multiple > hosts. Dangerous but cost effective. I recently implemented some > protection through a fc switch that restricts some hosts to r/o access > to the data luns. So if someone types mount -o rw or something, all is > not lost. This is completely dangerous and should not be done. The FC switch is preventing potentially serious corruption to your filesystem, but is not preventing the r/o clients from getting corrupt/stale data and possibly crashing. There is nothing on those clients to keep their cache up-to-date with what is happening on the r/w server. > Is there a way to automatically skip the recovery attempt, and if so, > should I use it? No. > Am I going about this all wrong, is there a better way to do this (other > than GFS)? As another person suggested, NFS is fine for small-scale usage like this. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Principal Software Engineer Cluster File Systems, Inc. _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
