official way to load aoe module?

[Etzion Bar-Noy]

Indeed.
The easiest to implement, amongst the free clustered filesystems is OCFS2 by
Oracle. Two or three RPMs, a short configuration phase, and you're fine.

Ez

On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Oleg Goldshmidt <pub at goldshmidt.org> wrote:

> Hetz Ben Hamo <hetzbh at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I just wonder about one thing which I haven't found a solution (yet)
> > for it: I mounted the aoe on 2 machines and I see the shared
> > partition from the server. So far, so good.
> >
> > But any change that I do on any machine is not being seen on the
> > other one.
> >
> > Anyone knows anything about this?
>
> AFAIK, AoE is a block level thing. What filesystem are you using?
>
> Unless it is a "distributed" ("clustered", whatever) filesystem like
> AFS or GPFS you simply cannot do it. If you try this with extN or
> CIFS/samba or anything "normal" all you'll get is a bunch of corrupted
> files.
>
> A filesystem does not live on disk only, it is represented as a bunch
> of data structures in your computer's memory. You cannot mount a disk
> on two independent computers simultaneously and expect consistency,
> unless the filesystem supports it.
>
> --
> Oleg Goldshmidt | pub at goldshmidt.org
>
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