Re: Shared storage in a 2 node Linux environment

On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 00:20 +0200, Gabriel Andersson wrote:
> I have setup a two node Linux RHEL 3.0 environment and connected a
> Matrox OneTouche 300GB FIrewire disk as shared storage. The 2
> Linuxboxes kan mount the shared storage as /dev/sdc at the same time
[...]
> The problem I am currently having is that if i create a file on node1
> ( touch test.txt ) this wont be visible on node2 unless I umount on
> node2 and remount /dev/sdc agan on node2.

You must use a cluster file system designed for this. I know of two
options:
Oracle Cluster File System - http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs/
Global File System - http://sources.redhat.com/cluster/gfs/

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Received on Tue Apr 26 17:44:33 2005