Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
It looks like no-one has posted this link in this thread, and Saqib
doesn't seem to have seen it:
http://www.linux-ha.org/HaNFS
The web page is admittedly confusing, but it does mention sharing
with DRBD. My experience is a few years old, but yes, linux-ha + DRBD
is a good cheap way to get a high availability file server.
- Dave
On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 08:51:29AM -0700, 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).
>
> 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?
>
> Saqib
>
>
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