[DRBD-user] Re: 8.0.6 Sync problem after updating kernel

Peter P GMX Prometheus001 at gmx.net
Wed Oct 17 22:26:23 CEST 2007

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.


Okay, now I got it.

Kelly Byrd schrieb:
>   
>> But in r/o mode I should not be able to change the data - or? I am
>> looking for a solution to have at least a limited access from B to the
>> joint filesystem.
>>
>>     
> Let's say you're  using ext3.
> Mouting read-only with ext3 will STILL confuse the ext3 driver on B.
> "confuse" could mean panicing B's kernel. The ext3 driver (and xfs, jfs,
> and all the others) have the assumption that they are the only thing
> touching the underlying block device. As a simple example, when a file
> is created on A, a new inode is allocated. How is the ext3 code on B
> supposed to know about that new inode? The ext3 driver on A isn't written
> to share this information, why should it? It rightfully assumes it is
> the only thing touching the underlying block device.
>
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