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premson
premson
Shared Disk support on raw devices and ext3
May 14 2008, 3:12 AM EDT | Post edited: May 14 2008, 3:12 AM EDT
Does OVM support shared disk using raw devices and ext3, apart from ocfs2.

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hbergh
hbergh
1. RE: Shared Disk support on raw devices and ext3
May 16 2008, 3:47 PM EDT | Post edited: May 16 2008, 3:47 PM EDT
No. ext3 is not a cluster filesystem, so you can't have shared access to it from multiple machines at the same time. One machine doesn't know what the other machine is doing to the filesystem, so it will get corrupted.
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