[DRBD-user] Dual-Head as ro?

Lars Ellenberg lars.ellenberg at linbit.com
Tue Dec 2 13:24:39 CET 2014

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On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 06:16:09AM +0100, Christian Völker wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have not ried yet and with a little bit of thinking th answer might be
> obvious. But anyways:
> 
> Is it possible to run a two-node setup

Yes.

> *without* a clustered filesystem

No.

> where both heads access the data but one of these two nodes only as read-only?
> 
> I guess it is still somewhat complicated as ext4 and so on cache data.

Right.

So: your proposed "Solution" does not work.

Some other solution might.
But, what do you really want to solve, what exactly is the challenge?

	Lars

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