From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 2 13:29:19 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 044B537B401 for ; Wed, 2 Jul 2003 13:29:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59AD344025 for ; Wed, 2 Jul 2003 13:29:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) id h62KTHrB057036; Wed, 2 Jul 2003 15:29:17 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 15:29:17 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Etienne Ledoux Message-ID: <20030702202916.GD59317@dan.emsphone.com> References: <200306281044.24659.etienne@unix.za.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200306281044.24659.etienne@unix.za.org> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which filesystem can I use to access a shared Rackstorage (Raid Array) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2003 20:29:19 -0000 In the last episode (Jul 02), Etienne Ledoux said: > I finally got my netservers up and running. I can mount the > rackstorage (shared Raid Array) from both. But as expected if I > add/delete something on the one server the other one doesn't see it > untill I reboot it and remount the share. Just an umount/remount > doesn't pick up the change either. I would have expected a kernel panic myself :) > This being a nice setup I would like to be able to access > (add/delete) at the same time from both servers. Which filesystem > available for FreeBSD can I use to do this ? There are no shared-storage filesystems for FreeBSD. > Alternitavily, how can a remount the parition without having to > reboot to be able to see all the new data. This will enable me to > sort off use the second server as a standby. NFS mount the filesystem from one machine to the other. If you really need fast access, buy a pair of $50 gigabit NICs, put one in each machine, and hook them up with a crossover cable. With a bit of work, you can probably even do a failover setup where if the primary fails, the secondary will fsck and mount the filesystem itself. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com