Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 15:29:17 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Etienne Ledoux <etienne@unix.za.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which filesystem can I use to access a shared Rackstorage (Raid Array) Message-ID: <20030702202916.GD59317@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <200306281044.24659.etienne@unix.za.org> References: <200306281044.24659.etienne@unix.za.org>
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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
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