linux&win share partition, disable write-cache?
Dotan Cohen
dotancohen at gmail.com
Thu May 19 08:21:38 UTC 2005
On 5/11/05, Robert Locke <lists at ralii.com> wrote:
> To be honest, I would be surprised if this ever worked. I think, you
> are correct in your assumption that the primary issue is a caching
> issue. But it's not just the "write-cache". There is a read-cache.
> How does the "hibernating" operating system know that a change has been
> made to one of the "drives/partitions"? These operating systems and
> their interactions with the hard disk make a HUGE ASSUMPTION - that they
> are the only one accessing the disk/partition/filesystem. This is why
> clustering is not a slam dunk and requires a different filesystem.
>
> What you would need to do is modify the "hibernate" scripts to
> drop/umount or something the "shared" filesystem and the "wakeup"
> scripts to pickup/mount or something the "shared" filesystem. This way,
> only one operating system has the partition/filesystem open at a time
> and life returns to sanity....
>
> HTH,
>
> --Rob
>
Try shuting down the operating systems instead of hibernating them. If
this solves the problem, then modify the hibernate/ wakup scripts as
Rob suggested.
Dotan Cohen
http://Song-Lirics.com/
http://Song-Lyriks.com/
More information about the users
mailing list