[nycbug-talk] Approach for the NFS cluster

[Isaac Levy]

Wordup All,

On May 19, 2009, at 11:15 AM, George Rosamond wrote:

> Aleksandar Kacanski wrote:
>> Hi, I am interested if anyone implemented NFS in HA configuration and
>> what are folks experiences with different scenarios. I am interested
>> in pNFS, but there is DRBD (harbeat) or just plain cluster of nfs
>> servers without sharing metadata. My requirement is that I need to
>> make service available and I can't have one point of failure...
>>
>> Regards, --Aleksandar (Sasha) Kacanski
>
> AFAIK, carp was developed for file mounts. . . I think SMB though.

SMB read-only shares, to be persnickety.

Keeping data state is always a trick.

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> Worth the pursuit.
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> g

Indeed.... down the rabbit hole though...,