Re: [RFC] mount flag "direct"

Rik van Riel
2002-09-03T15:09:11Z

On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Peter T. Breuer wrote:

> Rationale:
> No caching means that each kernel doesn't go off with its own idea of
> what is on the disk in a file, at least. Dunno about directories and
> metadata.

And what if they both allocate the same disk block to another
file, simultaneously ?

A mount option isn't enough to achieve your goal.

It looks like you want GFS or OCFS. Info about GFS can be found at:

http://www.opengfs.org/
http://www.sistina.com/ (commercial GFS)

Dunno where Oracle's cluster fs is documented.

regards,

Rik
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