Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-xfs); Fri, 28 Jan 2005 12:31:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from mbe0.msomt.modwest.com (mbe0.msomt.modwest.com [216.220.25.82]) by oss.sgi.com (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j0SKVnVK030096 for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 12:31:50 -0800 Received: from d216-220-25-60.dynip.modwest.com (d216-220-25-60.dynip.modwest.com [216.220.25.60]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mbe0.msomt.modwest.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20E0C5F3C9E for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 13:31:48 -0700 (MST) Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 13:36:26 -0700 From: Michael Loftis To: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: multiple machines mounting same partition via SAN Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <41FA97E4.7010902@activestate.com> References: <41FA97E4.7010902@activestate.com> X-Mailer: Mulberry/3.1.6 (Win32) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Modwest-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: mloftis@wgops.com X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.80/650/Sun Jan 2 19:00:02 2005 clamav-milter version 0.80j on 127.0.0.1 X-Virus-Status: Clean X-archive-position: 4816 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: linux-xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com X-original-sender: mloftis@wgops.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-xfs Content-Length: 511 Lines: 27 --On Friday, January 28, 2005 11:52 -0800 David Sparks wrote: > Ok, good. > > What I'm actually interested in is having one machine mount the partition > in RW and another in RO mode. Is this a sane configuration? No. You could mount everyone RO but even that might be dicey. To do any RW mounts you need soemthing like GFS or Lustre or some other clustering filesystem > > Thanks, > > ds > > > -- GPG/PGP --> 0xE736BD7E 5144 6A2D 977A 6651 DFBE 1462 E351 88B9 E736 BD7E