[Techtalk] Accessing a LUN From Multiple Linux Systems

[Gayathri Swaminathan]

On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Joana Botto <joana.botto at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have two Red Hat servers connected to a SAN with fibre channel.
> I presented a LUN to the two servers and I can see it on both as a raw
> device.
> When I mount the LUN in one server I can't access it on the other server.
>
> To mount a device in Linux we need a file system and I believe I can't
> format the same partition in two different servers.
> I found GFS on Red Hat website. Is this the right way to go?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Regards,
> Joana Botto
> _________________________________________
>

Hi:

You are right on your thinking. The filesystem needs to be either GFS or
clusterware like OCFS.

good luck!
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Gayathri Swaminathan
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