Xen devel - Aug 2005 - Re: [Xen-users] Sharing filesystems between VMs.

Tom Brown pointed out a typo I''d made - thanks Tom!
> > Basically, because the FS layer usually expects only one kernel to
access
> > a filesystem, one writer and multiple readers will cause confusion,
> > multiple readers will hose your filesystem pretty quickly.
>
> didn''t you mean "multiple writers"  there?
Yeah, sorry :-)  What I meant was:

* multiple readers = fine, go for it
* one (or more) readers, one writer = bad - the readers will get confused 
pretty quick, although the writer and the underlying data will be happy
* multiple writers = really really bad - they''ll trash the filesystem

Cheers,
Mark
> -Tom
>
> > > You need a cluster file system like GFS, OCFS, etc., or just NFS.
> >
> > Yes, if you want write sharing.  Exporting read only is fine, though.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Mark
> >
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