[Techtalk] Accessing a LUN From Multiple Linux Systems

[Joana Botto]

I guess from a distribution perspective GFS fits well with Red Hat and
OCFS fits well with Suse.
Any recommendations?

Regards,
Joana Botto


On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Joana Botto<joana.botto at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you.
>
> Regards,
> Joana Botto
>
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 1:00 AM, Gayathri
> Swaminathan<gayathri.swa at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> 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!
>> --
>> Gayathri Swaminathan
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