Mounting UFS non exclusive

[Brooks Davis]

On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 02:54:18PM -0200, Marcus Alves Grando wrote:
> People,
> 
> I install one EMC AX100 and 2 FC Qlogic 2340 in two FreeBSD servers.
> Both servers can see virtual disk created in AX100, but only one per
> time can mount.
> 
> It's possible this two servers mount (read/write) this filesystem?

No.  You system will crash.  The best you can do is mount two read-only.

Actually, I think you might be able to mount a snapshot RO, but I'm not
sure.  I'd be intrested in knowing if you could do that since it would
provide an intresting way to do dump based backups with a SAN or via a
dual ported drive (such as SAS drives).

-- Brooks

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