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Re: [zfs-discuss] Single SAN Lun presented to 4 Hosts

Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Single SAN Lun presented to 4 Hosts
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Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 18:23:34 +0200

>Yes, thank you for confirming what I said.
>
>So it is possible, but not recommended, because I must take care
>not to read from files for which buffers haven't been flushed yet.


Not, it's much worse than that: UFS will not re-read cached data for
the read-only mount so the read-only mount will continue to use data
which is stale; e.g., once a file is opened and as long as its inode
is in use (file open) or cached, you will never see a change to the file.
You will never notice changes to data unless you no longer cache it.

Panics and random data reads are guaranteed.

Casper

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