Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
I was getting weird errors too trying to symlink the shared NFS dir (I'm using NFS v4 on CentOS 4.3) so DRBD could propogate it. What I realized (and I could be wrong, but it appears to work) is that it doesn't *need* to be shared, as long as on failover you restart the NFS services (portmapper, nfsd, all the RPC crap) - it seems to pick up where it left off. The only thing I can think is possibly if it was in the middle of some process/transaction like writing a large file when it crashed, it might have been able to persist that, but for my setup, those were odds I could live with. On 6/6/06, Montse Seisdedos <mseisdedos at mediafusion.es> wrote: > > Hello everybody: > > I'm trying to built a HA nfs server in a FC4. > > I've been reading about link or not to link /var/lib/nfs to the share fs. > I did it, but when i try to start nfs i get the following errors > > Jun 6 11:01:17 mfs-01 exportfs[5969]: can't open /var/lib/nfs/rmtab for > reading > Jun 6 11:01:17 mfs-01 exportfs[5969]: could not open /var/lib/nfs/xtab for > locking > Jun 6 11:01:17 mfs-01 exportfs[5969]: could not open /var/lib/nfs/etab for > locking > Jun 6 11:01:17 mfs-01 exportfs[5969]: can't lock /var/lib/nfs/etab for > writing > Jun 6 11:01:17 mfs-01 exportfs[5969]: could not open /var/lib/nfs/xtab for > locking > Jun 6 11:01:17 mfs-01 exportfs[5969]: can't lock /var/lib/nfs/xtab for > writing > > # ls -l /var/lib/nfs > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 jun 6 10:02 /var/lib/nfs -> /u/varlibnfs > # ls -la /var/lib/nfs/ > total 120 > drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 jun 6 10:08 . > drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 77824 jun 6 10:07 .. > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 sep 27 2005 etab > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 sep 27 2005 rmtab > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 sep 27 2005 rpc_pipefs > drwx------ 2 rpcuser rpcuser 4096 sep 27 2005 statd > -rw------- 1 root root 0 sep 27 2005 state > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 sep 27 2005 xtab > > > somebody can help me, is really necesary to mv /var/lib/nfs to the share fs? > > Thanks in advance. > > > > _______________________________________________ > drbd-user mailing list > drbd-user at lists.linbit.com > http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user > > >