On Tue, 7 Oct 2014 02:56:31 -0400 Errol Neal <eneal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 10/06/2014 09:06 AM, Errol Neal <eneal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > hi folks. is it possible to assemble an md device in read-only mode? > > after an array has been assembled, I know I can mark it as readonly with --misc -o /dev/md0 for example, but only after its been assembled it seems.. > > > > Hi again. No thoughts here? Not even 18 hours since you last asked - what do you thing this is? The Internet :-) > I'm need to run a RAID1 device on two independent nodes (shared storage) and I'd like to assemble the device on the "slave" node in read-only mode to prevent any sync actions and etc. Did you try adding the "--readonly" option to your --assemble command? (Always best to report everything you tried and how it failed - requires less guess work). I hope you don't expect too much of a filesystem mounted from such an array while the other node is writing to the array... NeilBrown > -- > 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
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