Mounting Filesystem on Remote External Disk

[Amit Dixit_2]

Hi,
I am having 2 server.
One with 4 external disks.

I want to use one of these disk on my second
server so that I can create raw file system
on it.

Thanks & Regards,
Amit

[Dave Olker]

Hi Amit,

I don't think I understand your question. Are you asking if you can use NFS to mount a remote raw filesystem? Could you simply cable one of the disks to your second server and create the raw filesystem locally?

Regards,

Dave

[Amit Dixit_2]

HI,
I cannot connect it to my 2nd server as
they are external disk connected to my
first server.

Is there any way to see those disks
on my second server.

Thanks,
Amit

[Mei Jiao]

If you unable cable one of the disks to your 2nd server, you may want to try to use NFS to mount the raw filesystem to your 2nd server.

[Amit Dixit_2]

Hi,
Then please tell me the procedure to do
that

Step by step task to perform this operation
on both the server's
WOULD BE A GREAT HELP TO ME...

Thanks,
Amit

[Dave Olker]

I don't believe there is any way to mount a raw filesystem via NFS, at least I've never heard of any way to do this.

NFS uses files/directories and offsets within files to read and write blocks of data. Raw filesystems use different semantics that are incompatible with NFS. Data stored in raw filesystems is only understood by the applications that store the data in the raw filesystems. NFS has no idea how to address such data without defined files, directories, inodes, etc.

Regards,

Dave

[rvrameshbabu]

1 ) Create a filesytem using the disks in the server where the disk is attached ( server 1 )
2 ) mount the filesystem in server where the disk is attached ( server 1 )
3 ) share the filesystem in server 1 using NFS

4 ) Mount the NFS filesystem in server 2

[Sunil Sharma_1]

Hi Amit,

It's not possible to achieve this. You can not access or create raw volume without attaching disk to the server. Disk should be visiable to server at hardware level to create raw volume on that.

But if you want to use as File system you can do it using NFS.


Sunil