may be lustre On 4/13/06, Erik Mouw <erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 05:24:34PM -0400, Jon Miller wrote: > > I have two machines which have redundant paths to the same shared scsi > > disk. I've had no problem creating the multipath'ed device md0 to > > handle my redundant pathing. But now I'd like to use a simple FS, such > > as ext3, mounted rw on the first machine and ro on the second machine. > > The idea is that the second machine, mounting the FS ro, would be able > > to read any new data being written in the FS. > > Everything has been rather easy to setup, but anything being created > > on the FS is not seen on the other machine with the FS mounted ro. > > That is, I can create a file on the first machine and I never see that > > file from the second machine until I remount the FS. > > At this point, I am actually trying to avoid GFS, OCFS, veritas > > clustered FS options as well as NFS. If there was a simple hack, that > > I'm missing, to enable the updates to the FS to be seen in realtime, > > then I'd actually prefer that method. > > Any help would be appreciated. > > I'm affraid the only way out is indeed GFS or OCFS. Those filesystems > are specifically designed to be mounted by several hosts and (should) > have caching and locking issues covered. > > > Erik > > -- > +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- > | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- Raz - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
