On Nov 04, 2005 18:11 +0100, J�r�me Petazzoni wrote: > [one r-w mount, multiple r-o mounts shared thru FC switch] > > I once heard about someone doing something like that for a video farm, > intermixing solaris and freebsd servers (so as far as he, and I, knew, > there was no easy sharing solution). He did the following : > - create the filesystem on the solaris bow > - create many 1 GB files, with a specific byte pattern (512 bytes > sectors iirc) Actually, if this was the case (files were never extended or truncated) and the clients always used O_DIRECT to prevent caching of the data then this would also work with an ext2 mount (or a modified ext3 that had a mount option to disable journal recovery, only in conjunction with read-only mounting). It wouldn't really be a "normal" filesystem but for a specialized app environment it might work. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Principal Software Engineer Cluster File Systems, Inc. _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
