Shared USB HDD storage

[voarsh]

I have a large USB drive that I wish to use as shared network storage - how can I achieve this?

Can it be connected to any one cluster node, or must it be the "master" of the cluster?

Or is it better to do like this post and do GlusterFS/Ceph?
https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/shared-storage-beween-nodes-in-cluster-question.50576/post-235275

- although I don't think GlusterFS is an option because I think I'd have to format the drive - which is not wanted at all.

 

[H4R0]

Glusterfs/Ceph is if you have a drive connected on each node and want the drives to be synced over network.

What you want is a simple file share using nfs or cifs. nfs works better with linux, cifs with windows. You can run both.

Mount the disk on any node, setup nfs export, mount it into other nodes/vm's via nfs.

 

[voarsh]

Mount the disk on any node, setup nfs export, mount it into other nodes/vm's via nfs.

Never heard of nfs export - is this installing a NFS server service?

 

[voarsh]

Can anyone point me out how I would setup a shared NFS for all nodes on a cluster?