[DRBD-user] Migrating NFS to a DRBD block device

Bernd Schubert bernd-schubert at web.de
Fri Oct 15 23:33:16 CEST 2004

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.


On Friday 15 October 2004 20:06, Lars Ellenberg wrote:
> / 2004-10-15 19:44:40 +0300
>
> \ Antti Salmela:
> > Lars Ellenberg wrote:
> > > so there is no chance (without patching the nfs server to support a
> > > configurable mapping of exported handle numbers to block dev numbers)
> > > to migrate the data on the nfs server to some other block device
> > > without rebooting / forcefully remounting the clients.
> >
> > At least knfsd supports this already, see fsid option in man 5 exports
>
> well, "already" ... for your distribution and version.
> which is obvisouly "recent" in the sense of the sub-thread started by
> Bernd Schubert...
>
> Maybe you can tell us the exact version that introduced it?

Either in 2.4.19 or 2.4.20, can't remember exactly, but I have a strong 
feeling that it was 2.4.19.

Cheers,
 Bernd




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