[Techtalk] Accessing a LUN From Multiple Linux Systems

[Joana Botto]

Thank you.

Regards,
Joana Botto

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 1:00 AM, Gayathri
Swaminathan<gayathri.swa at gmail.com> wrote:
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>
> 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
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> Hi:
>
> You are right on your thinking. The filesystem needs to be either GFS or
> clusterware like OCFS.
>
> good luck!
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