Best practice for shared volume with iscsi Dell MD3200i ?
Gary Palmer
gpalmer at freebsd.org
Fri May 11 15:52:28 UTC 2012
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 10:16:43AM +0200, Karl Oulmi wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to run two freebsd9 boxes with a 3.7 TO shared iscsi volume
> on a MD3200i.
>
> The goal is to run a "master" and a "slave" dovecot IMAP server with a
> shared /home.
>
> I created the shared partition like this :
> gpart create -s gpt /dev/da0
> gpart add -t freebsd-ufs /dev/da0
> newfs /dev/da0p1
>
> Everything is working great on the "master" server, but when I'm trying
> to mount the volume from the "slave" one, I have the following error :
> mount: /dev/da0p1 : Operation not permitted
>
> The only way I have to successfully mount the share on the "slave"
> server is to run a fsck -t ufs /dev/da0p1 and then do the mount.
>
> Could anyone tell me what's wrong ?
UFS is not a cluster-aware filesystem. You cannot mount it in
multiple places at the same time. The best you can hope for in
that situation, short of developing a cluster-aware filesystem, is
to only mount the volume on the slave if the master fails.
Regards,
Gary
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