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RE: [Xen-users] iSCSI Volumes and Xen

To: 'Nick Couchman' <Nick.Couchman@xxxxxxxxx>, "'xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-users] iSCSI Volumes and Xen
From: Joseph Coleman <joe.coleman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 07:56:05 -0600
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What would you recommend I use for a filesystem? 

-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Couchman [mailto:Nick.Couchman@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 8:54 PM
To: Joseph Coleman; 'xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] iSCSI Volumes and Xen

You're almost certainly not using a cluster-aware filesystem if you're seeing 
this behavior - if you mount a filesystem on more than one machine at a time 
you *must* use a cluster-aware filesystem - otherwise you *will* corrupt your 
filesystem and lose the contents.

-Nick

>>> On 2010/01/12 at 13:25, Joseph Coleman <joe.coleman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
>>> wrote:
> I am moving away from NFS due to performance issues and going to iSCSI I have 
> a 4 node environment that I am going to cluster. However, when I share out 
> the iSCSI volume with all 4 servers and mount the volume as /var/vm  on the 
> servers they are unable to view the files or folders the other server 
> creates. How can I get around this?



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