Hi, Thanks for the reply. I found this page, talking about simultaneous read/write to a single file system. <a href="http://www.redhat.com/gfs/">http://www.redhat.com/gfs/</a> snap-------------------- Red Hat GFS is commonly used in clusters of enterprise applications to provide high speed access to a consistent file system image across the server nodes. This allows the cluster nodes to simultaneously read and write to a single shared filesystem. Typical application clusters where Red Hat GFS is deployed today include: -------------------------end of snap Please can I have some technical idea, doc or flow chart type of thing regarding GFS mechanism. Thanks and Regards Anuj Singh. <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Christine Caulfield <<a href="mailto:ccaulfie@redhat.com">ccaulfie@redhat.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="Ih2E3d">???? Anuj Singh wrote: > Hi, > I have a question related to GFS + LVM and iscsi. > 1). I have a file test.txt on shared GFS file system, some user ramesh > opens test.txt to read, at the same time some other user Smith on the > network writes some data to test.txt file. > What data will Ramesh see in test.txt file which is changed after he > opened? > How does GFS handles data integrity? </div>The same thing happens on GFS as would occur if you did that on a local file system. GFS does not provide any additional data integrity features over other file systems. If you can corrupt a file by writing to it from two places using ext3 on one node, then the same thing will happen using GFS, regardless of whether the processes are on the same or different nodes. The point of GFS is not to provide data integrity, but /metadata/ integerity. ie, the filesystem itself does not become corrupted by two nodes writing to the same inode or directory. So, the basic rule is: if it would corrupt data if two people on the same node did it on next3, then it will also corrupt data if two people on different nodes did it on GFS. I hope that's clear! -- Chrissie </blockquote></div>