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- X-RFC822-From: adelman (Kenneth Adelman) @ TGV.COM
- From: adelman@TGV.COM
- Subject: Re: NFSMOUNT in a cluster
- Organization: The INFO-MULTINET Community
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- > We want to make a Unix filesystem available in an LAVC. I assume we have to
- > NFSMOUNT the filesystem on every cluster member individually ? Or does there
- > exist a NFSMOUNT/CLUSTER ?
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- You need to NFSMOUNT on each node of the cluster. The cluster
- protocols are at too low a level to service NFSMOUNTed volumes to
- other nodes in the cluster.
-
- > What is possible and will we run in trouble with shared writes in case the
- > clusterworde mounting does not exist ?
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- Record locking doesn't work across NFS, but file locking will if
- the NFS Server supports a lock manager.
-
- Ken
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