best way to mix workstation/server purpose

Chris Brookes wrote:
> On 21/03/06, Manuel Bouyer <bouyerantioche.eu.org> wrote:
> 
>>NFS is the only thing that will work. You can't
mount the same block
>>device multiple times; ffs is not designed for that.
> 
> 
> Is there any other option for having a F/S mounted r/w
in one dom-u,
> and mounted r/o in another dom-u? Something other than
ffs?

No, there isn't.  As I understand it, each domU runs
independently of 
every other domU, which means their respective kernels
buffer and cache 
blocks on the partition independently.  So, if domU A is
writing to a 
partition that is mounted read-only by domU B, then domU B
has no way of 
knowing that the partition is being modified by something
other than 
itself, and whatever blocks domU B has cached are
potentially incorrect.

You really want NFS.

	Cheers,

	-- Johnny Lam <jlampkgsrc.org>