you will probably have to ipl the guests that share the filesystem. because of our change control, it's rare that we update /usr so the other guests mount it read-only.
this is one reason why i'm up at 2:07am . . . weekend changes. ooooo fun. > -----Original Message----- > From: Phil Hodgson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 2:05 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Sharing /usr using VM > > > Has anyone any experience of sharing /usr using vm? > > I want to try and use this on our increasing number of production SuSE > platforms. > > I have tried an experiment and all went well but I noticed > that any update > made on the owning system was not propagated to the sharing systems. I > presume this is because they are holding a copy of the 'superblock' in > storage. My concern is that an inode will be re-used on the > owning system > and thus render the shared systems view of the file system corrupt. > > What do you think? > > Phil >
