Reinout wrote: I’m trying to

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I’m trying to perfect the recording to a network drive aswell.  So far the iscsi path has worked very good for me. There is only one disadvantage when using more than one MCE computers in the house. As iscsi was never intended to be used by more than one initiator at once, you don’t see any updates on files from another machine, i.e. when MCE  A has recorded something to the iscsi target, MCE B can’t see it unless it disconnects and reconnects again to the target. Not ideal!

Now I’m trying to overcome this bij using a cluster filesystem (virtually VMWare, VirtualBox), so that multiple instances of connecting to the target will have “live” updates when a recording has been made or deleted.

The problem is that the whole clustering filesystem is totally new to me.

Can you tell me if your setup can provide me with a solution to my described problem?

thanks in advance

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Actually, I’m surprised you didn’t end up with a corrupt file system allowing multiple initiators to connect to a single target.  To me it is like having multiple computers connect to the same HDD via SATA (assuming that was physically possible, which it is not).  The file system needs to be designed from the outset to allow multiple clients manipulating file system structures simultaneously.  NTFS is not such a file system.  You’re better off setting up a separate target for each initiator, and using SMB sharing on the client if you need to share that content with other PCs.

I don’t know anything about file systems that might support simultaneous access to the physical media, so I can’t help you there…