[Linux-cluster] shared ext3

Wendy Cheng wcheng at redhat.com
Fri Jan 18 14:45:36 UTC 2008


Brad Filipek wrote:
>
> I know ext3 is not "cluster aware", but what if I had a SAN with an 
> ext3 partition on it and one node connected to it. If I was to unmount 
> the partition, physically disconnect the server from the SAN, connect 
> another server to the SAN, and then mount to the ext3 partition, would 
> there be any issues? I am not looking to access the partition 
> simultaneously, just one at a time. I am asking incase the server 
> connected to the SAN dies and I need to access the data on this ext3 
> volume from another server. Will it work?
>

Yes, that's should work quite well. Actually that's how people use ext3 
in a cluster environment.

-- Wendy




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