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From: Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>
To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Question] Btrfs on iSCSI device
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 09:40:02 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2173101.6G0fsERxkf@xev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53AD9D1A.4050703@libero.it>

On Fri, 27 Jun 2014 18:34:34 Goffredo Baroncelli wrote:
> I don't think that it is possible to mount the _same device_ at the _same
> time_ on two different machines. And this doesn't depend by the filesystem.

If you use a clustered filesystem then you can safely mount it on multiple 
machines.

If you use a non-clustered filesystem it can still mount and even appear to 
work for a while.  It's surprising how many writes you can make to a dual-
mounted filesystem that's not designed for such things before you get a 
totally broken filesystem.

On Fri, 27 Jun 2014 13:15:16 Austin S Hemmelgarn wrote:
> The reason it appears to work when using iSCSI and not with directly
> connected parallel SCSI or SAS is that iSCSI doesn't provide low level
> hardware access.

I've tried this with dual-attached FC and had no problems mounting.  In what 
way is directly connected SCSI different from FC?

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-06-27 23:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-27 15:44 [Question] Btrfs on iSCSI device Zhe Zhang
2014-06-27 16:34 ` Goffredo Baroncelli
2014-06-27 17:15   ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2014-06-27 17:52     ` Zhe Zhang
2014-06-27 23:40   ` Russell Coker [this message]
2014-06-28  3:28     ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2014-06-27 17:54 ` ronnie sahlberg

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