Why do I need a cluster file system

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Why do you need a special file system if you have more than one computer accessing a partition?

First, if two computers have file system cache, it can happen that one writes a block and the other one fetches an obsolete block from its cache, so there would be inconsistencies. But if you switch off file system cache, this problem is solved.