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Re: [Xen-users] synchronization with AoE

On Saturday, 02 December 2006 19:07:45 -0800,
Tom Mornini wrote:

> >>are you mounting the same volume on two hosts?  remember that
> >>ReiserFS isn't a cluster filesystem, and it won't stay consistent.
> >>IOW, this is a sure recipe to corrupt the FS

> >Yes. I must mount /dev/etherd/e0.0 on two host to perform the
> >migration, because of the file-backed VBD of DomU resides in this
> >exported partition. How I said, both files writes and deletes in the
> >file-backed VBD of DomU works synchronized, but the problem seems to
> >be when I want to create a file in the exported partition together
> >with the file-backed VBDs of DomU. Why this difference in the
> >synchronization? How I get writes and deletes in synchronized mode to
> >both file-backed VBD of DomU and others files in the same exported
> >partition?
 
> What Javier said is correct. What you are trying to do *will not
> work*.
 
> I cannot answer your question specifically, but I can say without
> question that the weirdness you're seeing is a side-effect of the root
> problem, and that you'll have bigger problems than you're already
> seen, as in data loss and kernel panics, if you continue down this
> road.

Mmmm... I see. Thanks for the warning. For the moment, I'll analyze what
Tim said. But all recommendation are welcome.

Regards,
Daniel
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