[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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