[Linux-cluster] Doing without GFS mounting several clients read-only

[Nate Carlson]

On Mon, 15 Jan 2007, Mike Papper wrote:
> The alternative I am considering is to have a single filesystem 
> available to many clients using a SAN (iSCSI in this case). However only 
> one client would mount the filesystem (Reiser, XFS etc.) as read/write 
> while the others would mount it read-only. For my application, all files 
> are written once then only ever read or deleted.

>From everything I've read, this will *not* work. Read the list archives; 
there has been lots of discussion of this before..

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