On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 12:46:54PM +0100, Gabriele Bulfon wrote:
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> What is the meaning of allowing an iscsi server initiator to allow the use
> of a raw shared device to multiple clients?
> Isn't this unsafe in any case?
There are systems that can make use of shared block devices. For example,
in Linux there is ocfs2 and gfs2 which use a shared block device for a file
system. Unlike regular file systems, the clients have to play nice using a
distributed lock manager to not corrupt the volume. One could teach any
block device accessing sw (fs, db, etc.) to play nice with others with iSCSI
disks, but it's a fair amount of effort and people generally don't care.
Jeff.
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