Re: [Linux-cluster] GFS and Simultaneous Access

[Tom Mornini <tmornini engineyard com>]

On Apr 17, 2007, at 7:27 AM, berthiaume_wayne emc com wrote:

> 	Also, I've been trying to figure out a way to allow all my nodes
> access to the same filesystem/LUN with separate directories for  
> each one
> within the same filesystem for simultaneous access. Is this  
> possible or
> would this be the place to use the SCSI reservations? This is being  
> done
> strictly for testing.

Take a look at Context Sensitive Symlinks.

If you:

  ln -s @host common_directory

Then when each host accesses common_directory it will resolve to that
system's hostname instead.

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