Phil, Others have already explained that for simple sharing of minidisks, _all_ systems need to have the file system mounted read-only. I just wanted to point out that NFS, as well as [Open]GFS can be used if you need read-write access by any system. I believe AFS could be used in the same way.
Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Phil Hodgson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 3:05 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
