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Can a block storage mount point be accessed in multiple droplets?

Posted on September 30, 2016

Is there a way to expose a block storage mount point to multiple droplets?



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A block storage device can only be mounted to a single droplet currently but it is something we are looking at. For now, sharing a block storage device could only be done via NFS, SSHFS, or another network based file sharing system.

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