[Ma-linux] Booting (several PCs) from USB drive

[Angelo Bertolli]

Jay Hart wrote:
> Ok, again going with a clustered solution.
>
> I want to know if I mount a USB based flash drive, or a drive with a USB
> interface, if I could connect the drive into a USB hub, with each PC having it
> set to boot from USB, and then having a UBS cable connected to the hub, would
> this work?
>
> The layout would look like:
>
> USB drive -----> Hub ------->>> PC 1
>                    \-------->>> PC 2
>
> What I'm looking for is a way to boot 2 or 3 PCs, from the same drive.
>
> Comments???
>   
You can't have multiple machines sharing the same filesystem in 
real-time without some kind of locking mechanism.  Files will get 
corrupted quickly if you just try to use a "hub" unless... you're 
planning on exclusively using this file system as read-only.

Angelo