Re: Re: is it possible to access

On Wednesday 09 February 2005 23:51, you wrote:
> Hi Stefan,
>
> > You can't.  The enbd server's kernel and file system cache have not been
> > traversed when the enbd client writes into the device (partition,
> > whatever) underneath it.
>
> Yes, completely right - that is not related to enbd at all and a relly
> general trap, users fall into. You cannot mount blockdevices containing
> ordinary filesystems from more than one location - period. Mounting it a
> second time results in severe inconsistencies.
>
> There are special cluster filesystems (e.g. Veritas Storage Foundation,
> Oracle OCFS,Polyserve... ) which adress this issue - e.g if you have
> multi-node clusters (like Oracle RAC) which share a single storage device.

Ok, thought it would be possible. Thanks for all your help guys, and for enbd. 
It is a lot of fun to play around with it. Hope I'll find a  possibility to 
use it in the future. Switching to an Network fs now.

mfg,
Stefan