Mount Fiber attached volume read/write on Windows and readonly on linux

jojothedogboy · 09-02-2010, 04:07 PM

I could only find this that comes close to what I want...

I have a Windows 2003 server with fiber attached volumes (NTFS) that I would like to mount readonly on a linux system to back it up to tape. The fiber device will allow me to present the volume R/W to one host and R/O to another, however, the R/O system doesn't see any of the changes made by the R/W server. In other words, how can I make a readonly volume refresh, scan for changes, or update without un/re-mounting it?

Is the "mount -o --bind" option what I want? From the MAN is doesn't seem right... the option "sync" seems slightly more promising but I think I'm just grasping at straws here.

The best I have come up with is a cron job to unmount then mount the volume periodically. Any better ideas?

James259 · 09-04-2010, 08:34 AM

Hi,

Dont think this is much help but if you simply want to avoid the unmounting part, you can do a remount in place by doing something like this: (probably just before you run each backup)

mount -o ro,remount /mount/point