Re: 2 servers access a single shared file folder

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you are saying that you have two nodes which are accessing the same LUN on
your storage ?

STOP !

if so, that is not a valid configuration, you may NOT share a LUN this way.
This will lead to data corruption. Even when you do not see this at this
point, you probably already have it

My advice is to IMMEDIATELY STOP this, before your data gets corrupted.
and create a backup of all your data right now.

Did I mention data corruption ?

NTFS is not designed for concurrent access of LUNs.
Please : one LUN to one server ONLY.

Rgds,
_Edwin.


<felixhan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1158654136.260520.53340@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi guys,

Quick question on file sharing in 2003 Edition.

I have installed two servers with 2003 Edition. The two servers are
using EVA8000 SAN, and I have created a LUN with 500GB and shared it.
So, now two servers are able to look at this single point of LUN and
access the files. Now the question is I am not able to see the changes
from B server if A server did a change on the files. Any configuration
that I can do on 2003 Edition so that both A & B servers can see the
changes simultaneously? Any documentation from Microsoft can show
this? My objective is very simple, just to make two servers can
actively access and write the files on the shared folder.

Thanks for any input you guys may have. Appreciate.



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