[DRBD-user] Mirroring between NFS servers

Andreas Haase - evolver group andreas.haase at evolver.de
Fri Oct 26 16:51:00 CEST 2007

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.

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