Multiple Mounting of one XFS Partition

Eric Sandeen sandeen at sandeen.net
Mon Mar 16 21:17:44 CDT 2009


Steffen Knauf wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> i have 2 Servers which are connected with a raid via FibreChannel.
> 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. I don't know how whether it is a cache 
> Option or something else.
> Perhaps someone have an idea.
> Thanks!
> 
> greets

You can't do this.  It will corrupt your filesystem; there is *nothing*
which will give you coherency between the nodes.

This is what SGI sells CXFS for (for big $$$)

-Eric




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