>>> On 6/5/2009 at 7:47 PM, Ted Rodriguez-Bell <[email protected]> wrote: -snip- > The situation is that we have a user who can't take downtime when his > LPAR is IPLed.
Despite your statement that a clustered file system would be overkill, it sounds like this user has the business requirement for an HA cluster. If he really does, then he should be using just that, and paying you for it. -snip- > The problem is that Ext3 will happily write to a filesystem *EVEN* > when you mount the FS read-only, if it thinks the journal needs > replaying. Obviously playing the journal on server B while server A > is writing to it could be Very Bad. If the access will truly be read-only, then mount the file system as ext2, and not ext3. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
