[DRBD-user] NFS, DRBD, HEARTBEAT, and CentOS.

Mark Watts m.watts at eris.qinetiq.com
Wed Sep 29 10:44:43 CEST 2010

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.


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On 09/28/2010 08:56 PM, Chuck Payne wrote:
> Guys,
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> My back is against the wall. For a month I been trying to get a HA NFS
> server built using DRBD, CentOS 5.5, and Heartbeat.
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> I have ran into countless issues with nfs and heartbeat to the point
> that am thinking that heartbeat shouldn?t be used with nfs, or there
> something  that I am missing.
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> I thought I had found an better way of doing  my HA NFS with exportfs
> (http://ben.timby.com/?p=109), but I am hitting error that showmount ?e.
> 
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> Sep 28 18:27:37 atlsvpnfs03 exportfs[2044]: ERROR: Export not reported
> by showmount -e --no-header
> 
> Sep 28 18:27:37 atlsvpnfs03 exportfs[2126]: ERROR: exportfs:
> /var/lib/nfs/etab:2: syntax error: bad option list
> 
> Sep 28 18:27:37 atlsvpnfs03 exportfs[2126]: ERROR: Failed to un-export
> file system
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>  
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> There has to be a good how to for DRBD, CentOS 5.5 and setting up an
> HA-NFS Server with the current Heartbeat/Pacemaker.

I might be more inclined to use RHCS since you're on CentOS 5.
DRBD plays nicely with it too - I'm using it to fail-over a
DRBD/FS/IP/Dovecot service but NFS is an explicltly supported resource
in RHCS too.

Mark.

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