From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Kluge Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 07:13:19 +0200 Subject: [Lustre-devel] mounting a device twice In-Reply-To: References: <51F00E38.7060601@tu-dresden.de> Message-ID: <51F0B3EF.8000205@tu-dresden.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lustre-devel@lists.lustre.org Hi Andreas, thanks for the information. Michael On 25.07.2013 04:39, Dilger, Andreas wrote: > You can do this because the kernel is not actually mounting the block device twice. Lustre is mounting the block device internally as type ldiskfs and the second mount will be like a bind mount of the same filesystem root tree. > > I do this on my local filesystem for quick debugging, but it isn't strictly safe on an active filesystem because modifications can render the Lustre and on disk state inconsistent. > > Cheers, Andreas > > On 2013-07-24, at 11:27, "Michael Kluge" wrote: > >> Hi list, >> >> can I mount a device mounted as lustre a second time as ldiskfs or would MMP protect me from doing this? >> >> >> Regards, Michael -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 4859 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature URL: