On 7/3/07, Nilesh Bansal <nileshbansal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This partition from is mounted on one of the machines, which is then exported to rest of 5 machines using NFS.
This is how it is usually done using a SAN. Remember this not a NAS which has built-in filesystem (NFS).
My question: Is there a reason why the SAN hosted partition can not be mounted by multiple machines.
A SAN slice acts like a physical drive - you wouldn't wanna connect one single HDD to multiple computer.
Are there any locking issues (files being modified simultaneously) than SAN can not handle.
yup. You need something like NFS, AFS, GFS, Lustre, or DFS to allow multiple machines to access the same storage. May I ask why you want connect multiple machines to the same SAN slice? Is it for clustering? saqib http://www.linkedin.com/in/encryption -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
