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 26 October 2007 16:14:25 Bernd Schubert wrote: > On Friday 26 October 2007 16:43:20 Mark Watts wrote: > > On Friday 26 October 2007 15:32:07 Saqib Jang wrote: > > > Hi there, > > > I'm new to DRBD, have a quick question. > > > > > > Can DRBD be used for active/passive real-time replication > > > between NFS servers? By real-time, I'm refering to in-process > > > NFS client requests being affected but new NFS client requests > > > going to the passive NFS server? > > > > 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. > > Huh, what gives you that idea? NFS up to NFSv3 ist stateless, there no > filehandle stored at all. For failover you need to have the very same inode > numbers and generation numbers, which is why you need shared storage such > as drbd. I stand corrected. My knowledge of this area has just increased. Thanks, Mark. -- Mark Watts BSc RHCE MBCS Senior Systems Engineer QinetiQ Trusted Information Management Trusted Solutions and Services Group GPG Key: http://keyserver.veridis.com:11371/search?q=0x455420ED -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <http://lists.linbit.com/pipermail/drbd-user/attachments/20071026/dfba9c40/attachment.pgp>