Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Mark Watts wrote: > DRBD could be used as the backing store for an HA NFS pair, but I > believe NFS clients would have to reconnect on fail-over since > file-handle state is stored in memory, not on disk. you can replace /var/lib/nfs by a sombolic link to a directory inside your drbd filesystem. Then switching over to standby node is possible without remounting filesystems from nfs clients. Depending on used hardware it could also be necessary to provide as fsid in /etc/exports. Mit freundlichen Gruessen Andreas Haase Administration und Technik evolver services GmbH Fon +49 / (0)3 71 / 4 00 03 70 Fax +49 / (0)3 71 / 4 00 03 79 E-Mail andreas.haase at evolver.de Web http://www.evolver.de Sitz der Gesellschaft: Chemnitz Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Chemnitz, HRB 22649 Geschaeftsfuehrer: Dirk Neubauer