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Re: [Xen-users] Sharing filesystems between VMs.

To: Andy Davidson <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Sharing filesystems between VMs.
From: Sven Oehme <oehmes@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 18:53:12 +0200
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take a look at Openafs ... it's also pretty good for that and easy to setup .

Sven


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Andy Smith wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 05:09:01PM +0100, Andy Davidson wrote:
> You can't export the same vbd twice r/w, and maybe not even r/o, I
> forget.  There is just no facility for doing that and AFAIK the
> error you get is saving you from seeing both domains crash.
> You need a cluster file system like GFS, OCFS, etc., or just NFS.

This was a theory I had; I tried exporting the filesystem r/w from
xm-manager and r/o from the other vms, but until I changed it to r/w
across the board from all machines, the vms refused to boot at all -
fsck would hang the bootup complaining of filesystem inconsistencies.

I'd not considered a clustered filesystem - thank you for the suggestion.

-a

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