How to attach shared OCFS2 Block Volume

Here is a very simple operation to create and attach the Block Volume to the Compute instance in the framework of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

However, the shared connection of many instances to conventional Block Volume may cause data corruption due to concurrent access to the same data blocks. In order to prevent kind of “accidents” here is the feature to deploy the OCFS2 file system available, which works correctly with multiple instances access.

Actually, here is the first “long-read” instruction I face during my short IT life, which led to the desired result just being followed step-by-step carefully with no “if”, “when”, and exhausting chain-googling.

So, thanks to Mr.Melo – the author, the instruction is here:

OCI Multiple-Instance Attach Block Volume with Oracle Cluster File System version 2 (OCFS2)

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