Re: Disable read/write caching to disk?

From: Bjoern Koenig <bkoenig_at_cs.tu-berlin.de>
Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 20:01:11 +0200
Eric Anderson wrote:
> Bjoern Koenig wrote:
> 
> Thanks.. I've just read (quickly) both man pages.  It seems as though 
> you are suggesting disabling the physical disk caching, which should not 
> make a difference in my case.  The disk would report whatever it needs 
> to report to either host, and those should be in sync.

Oh, I'm sorry. I have misunderstood you then.

> When I mount the filesystem on host B ro, it shows me the filesystem as 
> of the time that I mounted it ro.  Any subsequent changes on host A 
> (which has it mounted rw) are not seem on host B unless I unmount and 
> mount again on host B.  This seems like a FreeBSD feature and not a 
> general scsi feature.

By what mechanism do you mount the partitions remote? I'm not very 
experienced with this. I'm thinking of a typical network file system or 
GEOM gate.

Björn
Received on Thu May 26 2005 - 16:02:10 UTC

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