Mount same ext3 filesystem in 2 places... at the same time

[John Miles]

I thought that must be the case.

What exactly causes the corruption (out of curiosity, and only if you have a
moment).

JohnM


On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 11:00 AM, William Muriithi <
william.muriithi-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> John
> >
> > Still being a #NIX newbie, thought I ought to pose the question:
> >
> > Can an ext3 filesystem be mounted in 2 places at the same time?
> >
> No, unless you want data corruption.
>
> Only cluster aware file system like gfs can safely be mounted in multiple
> points
>
> > Thanks!
> >
> > JohnM
> >
> >
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