Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 08:32:56 +0900 From: horio shoichi <bugsgrief@bugsgrief.net> To: "adp" <dap99@i-55.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS server fail-over - how do you do it? Message-ID: <20040531.233258.1370f49f3ad40779.10.0.3.20@bugsgrief.net> In-Reply-To: <020501c44619$d44e6250$6501a8c0@yourqqh4336axf> References: <020501c44619$d44e6250$6501a8c0@yourqqh4336axf>
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On Sun, 30 May 2004 02:43:37 -0500 "adp" <dap99@i-55.com> wrote: > I am running a FreeBSD 4.9-REL NFS server. Once every several hours our main > NFS server replicates everything to a backup FreeBSD NFS server. We are okay > with the gap in time between replication. What we aren't sure about is how > to automate the fail-over between the primary to the secondary NFS server. > This is for a web cluster. Each client mounts several directories from the > NFS server. > > Let's say that our primary NFS server dies and just goes away. What then? > Are you periodically doing a mount or a file look-up of a mounted filesystem > to check if your NFS server died? If so are you just unmounting and > remounting everything using the backup NFS server? > > Just curious how this problem is being solved. > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Have you looked into amd (or, am-utils) ? I haven't used its failover feature, but it certainly does have it. horio shoichi
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