AW: multiple mount

["Jan Strohbehn" <edv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > > The fact that it is possible to mount XFS partitions in a SAN on
> > > different machines without any warning led us into some 
> > > problems with
> > > our servers. Is it possible to check if a partition is 
> > > already mounted,
> > > without mounting it ;-)
> >
> > ehmm..... "mount"? You can mount multiple partitions on the same
> > mountpoint. it's not an XFS problem but a feature of 2.4
> 
> I guess he means mounting of a shared disk on more than one 
> computer at
> the
> same time. When using ext2 you get the "not cleanly umounted" because
> the
> shared filesystem is not marked clean when already mounted on another
> computer.
> 

Yes, that's exactly what I mean ;-)

Jan