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Attach Block Storage Volumes to Multiple Droplets

Great thing you've done with block storage, most impressive and very useful. In the future if one block storage volume could be seen and used by multiple Droplets, it would make life sooooo much better and easier, to share install files, user files, possible backup images and much more between droplets. Great work DigitalOceanTeam!

  • Tim Goode
  • Sep 11 2018
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  • Ozgur Zeren commented
    18 Jan 02:17pm

    Even being able to read from multiple droplets would be a win.

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  • Ed Bergavera commented
    29 Dec, 2020 05:37am

    I'm waiting for this must-have feature. You can do this natively with AWS and GCP.

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  • Gilad Wagner commented
    14 Dec, 2020 07:09am

    It's a must! let's do this!

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  • Fabien Beller commented
    10 Nov, 2020 03:27pm

    I've been wanting a product like this from DigitalOcean for ages. Would be amazing!

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  • Stelian Nenkov commented
    2 Oct, 2020 10:13am

    Why is there no reply from DigitalOcean on guidance about this feature?

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  • Daniel Chavez commented
    23 Sep, 2020 09:53am

    This is very important, this is a must have.

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  • Juan Pablo Aguirre commented
    4 Jun, 2020 10:28am

    Indispensable feature for HA architectures

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  • Yote commented
    4 Jun, 2020 03:33am

    I need it. this feature very important for manage multiple droplets.

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  • Oscar Sanchez commented
    18 May, 2020 01:00pm

    I need it. :(

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  • Juan Pablo Aguirre commented
    11 May, 2020 01:33pm

    Love this idea

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  • Pranab Sharma commented
    8 Apr, 2020 10:53am

    Yes, this feature will be super useful.

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  • Pascal Andy commented
    12 Nov, 2019 02:08am

    There is also a bunch of ppl looking for this here: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/can-i-share-an-attached-volume-between-droplets

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  • Donny commented
    27 Sep, 2019 02:41pm

    This would be handy when you have many droplets accessing the same files. Especially when your doing batch processing.

     

    I think if we could be guaranteed by DO that using Spaces for this would have the same performance as Block Storage. Then people could just use Spaces. But not sure if thats possible.

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  • Beck commented
    8 Apr, 2019 11:06am

    read-only attachment should be available. provide an option for read/write access on attachment phase

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  • Ben Abbott commented
    5 Mar, 2019 01:58am

    This would be useful in the context of Kubernetes too, where multiple pods can use a shared volume.

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  • Rafael Rosa commented
    11 Sep, 2018 04:20pm

    Thanks for the suggestion. This was a very common request during our beta, we are considering how we can accommodate that request but we don't have any specific plans to share so far.

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  • YPCR commented
    11 Sep, 2018 04:20pm

    This would be a great feature and would cut out the need to setup replicated file systems such as glusterFS on each droplet.

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  • Nicolás Alvarez commented
    11 Sep, 2018 04:20pm

    That wouldn't be block storage anymore. You can't connect a single hard disk to two PCs, can you?

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  • Arnold Hendriks commented
    11 Sep, 2018 04:20pm

    As Nicolás said, I don't think you realise what you're asking for. Even if DO offered this, you can't just put a standard filesystem on a shared storage and expect the files to be available from multiple locations - you need specialised filesystems and distributed locking managers, an ext3 of xfs filesystem would corrupt in minutes as soon as writes from the second location started, or as soon as the second mount started a journal replay.

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  • DevQuixote commented
    11 Sep, 2018 04:20pm

    I think you want NFS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFS or something along those lines. I agree with others that this would be outside the scope of volumes.

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