Can Object Storage be mounted to Windows, as shared storage?
its recommended not to, as the request for new data written and then trying to access it will cause the platform to work incorrectly.
- Normal filesystems used with windows, for example, adding or editing simple text files and then opening after saving work perfectly fine with filesystems ontop of block devices.
- However, if this was the case with mounting the object storage to windows, this would cause instability and panic the file system. This is due to the object storage wanting to use different nodes each time when accessing it, so when you save something node A - will become aware of the change and take a few milliseconds for all nodes to update the change, however if a file is opened and a node has not updated correctly, the filesystem will panic, hence why we don't recommend mounting object storage to windows as shared storage.