I have a netapp joined by fiber channel to 2 linux head end servers. I'm using multipath fiber channel in an active/active mode for maximum data throughput.<br><br>box 1 can write a file and read that file is there. Box 2 can't see the file exists. <br>
box 2 can write file and see it on the netapp but box one does not see it.<br><br>run sync on both boxes and umount/mount the netapp storage space again.<br>both box 1 & 2 see the file written from box 1 but the file written from box 2 is gone.<br>
<br>this is bad. Clearly I have a misconfiguration somewhere! Box 2 shows errors related to ext3 journal corruption so ext3 is NOT a good choice.<br><br>Box 2 is supposed to be a failover database and the netapp is the storage for the database files. I would prefer for the failover to be closer to a hot standby than a cold standby but it looks like I can't keep the netapp partition mounted on box 2 if box 1 is still live. I'm not running the database at all on box 2.<br clear="all">
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