Questions tagged [shared-disk]
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Proper way to design filesystems structure for a cluster of diskless nodes
I'm trying to learn the basics of Linux clustering so I started designing a really humble cluster:
6 worker nodes (Libre Computer La Frite | Cortex-A53 @ 1.2 GHz | 1GB RAM)
1 master node (Raspberry ...
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Object is remote in mounted CIFS on Ubuntu
I am struggling to mount a CIFS shared disk on Lubuntu 20.04. It can be accessed by smb://myserver/files. The command I am using for mounting is:
sudo mount -t cifs //myserver/files /mnt/remote_disk -...
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Unable to mount gfs2 file system on Debian Stretch, probable dlm mis-config?
I am experimenting with gfs2 on Debian Stretch, and having some difficulties. I am a reasonably experienced Linux admin, but new to shared-disk and parallel file systems.
My immediate project is to ...
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Share an ext4 filesystem between two RHEL servers, but only one will mount at a time
I have two RHEL 6 servers which share a physical connection to a SAN storage (i.e., so both servers can see this /dev/sdb when running fdisk -l).
My goal is not to have both servers access the ext4 ...
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gvfs and permissions on a remote external usb drive
I have transmission and deluge (trying to see if it's a problem with the app) and I'm having the same problem with both of them. When torrenting. I get an error " Operation not supported (/run/user/...
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Failover NFS service with shared storage
I need to configure a cluster with shared
storage that can be moved from Node A to Node B and vica versa.
In case of failure of Node A, Node B should take over the IP address associated with the NFS ...
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How to safely delete a system partition?
I got the following disk
sda9 contains a new Linux installation which I'd like to keep, while sda5 is the old installation which I'd like to free (and successively merge with sda4, but we don't care).
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How shareable is /var/cache?
I know that some subdirectories of /var/cache are pretty much shareable, for example /var/cache/pacman (in case of ArchLinux), and possibly others (/var/cache/man?), but at least /var/cache/ldconfig ...
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storage server all nfs users on full 666 file permissions
How can I setup a shared storage location on a storage server shared via CIFS and NFS and all files written by CIFS and all users via NFS to write files and folders with full read/write permissions (...
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Shared drive between two Linux virtual machines
Assume I have two virtual machines.
How do I share a VMDK drive between them?
What solution do you recommend? Outside OS with NFS share?
Both of OSes see this drive as: /dev/sdb.
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How can I mount vxfs FS to two or more Solaris servers?
I want to have two Solaris servers share the same SAN vxfs Filesystem. Though at a time just one would be accessing the share. This is to allow for a quick failover in case the primary server ...
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Gedit cannot save in shared folder (Virtualbox) [duplicate]
I'm getting the
Cannot save _____ Unexpected error: Error renaming temporary file: Text file busy
in Gedit 2 when I try to save in a shared folder with Virtualbox (Debian). I've searched and ...
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Share files between RedHat and Mac
I have one RedHat 6 machine and three Mac OS machines. I want the RedHat one to be a file server, so that all files will be stored there. All Mac clients will access this server according to their ...
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Choosing a filesystem for a shared disk (not a cluster filesystem like GFS)
I have a bunch of servers connected to a SAN. One server hosts the production database server, performing full database backups to a filesystem on a LUN that is exported to all servers.
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