Re: [Linux-cluster] Re: [PATCH 00/14] GFS

[AJ Lewis <alewis@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 12:11:10PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 01:09:17PM +0200, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
> > So for every directoy hiearchy on a shared filesystem, each user needs
> > to have the complete list of bindmounts needed, and automatically resync
> > that across all nodes when a new one is added or removed? And then have
> > that executed by root, because a regular user can't?
> 
> Do it in an initscripts and let users simply not do it, they shouldn't
> even know what kind of filesystem they are on.

I'm just thinking of a 100-node cluster that has different mounts on different
nodes, and trying to update the bind mounts in a sane and efficient manner
without clobbering the various mount setups.  Ouch.

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