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 17:51:29 Saqib Jang -- Margalla Communications wrote: >> Saqib, your question is a bit strage, you want to have active/passive, but >> some clients shall connect to the passive server? I would name this >> active/active. I wouldn't want to do active/active with NFS, nfs is simply >> not designed for that purpose (besides that I have no idea how to set this >> up). [quoting corrected] > > Let me clarify, in normal mode the active server is supporting all NFS > client requests while the passive server is supportng a real-time 'live' > copy of file system of the active server. In case of failure of the active > server, the passive server transparently comes on-line to support all NFS > client requests, is this possible with DRBD? Yes, thats a common setup. Usually one does this in combination with heartbeat, though you could also do everything manually what heartbeat does. Cheers, Bernd