Multiple Mounting of one XFS Partition

Felix Blyakher felixb at sgi.com
Mon Mar 16 09:38:21 CDT 2009


On Mar 16, 2009, at 9:06 AM, Steffen Knauf wrote:

> Hello,
>
> i have 2 Servers which are connected with a raid via FibreChannel.

Unless you have some sort of cluster filesystem, it's not going
to work.

>
> Both of them have mounted the same XFS-Partition. But if i change a  
> Filepermission
> or add some Files at the Partition of server1, the partition of  
> server2 don't show the modifications
> until i remount the Partitions.

The changes done by server1 won't be flushed to disk, where they
could be seen by server2, till much later, or on unmount.

> I don't know how whether it is a cache Option or something else.

That's how any modern filesystem work.

Cheers,
Felix

>
> Perhaps someone have an idea.
> Thanks!
>
> greets
>
> Steffen
>
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