From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 22 23:14:26 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2ED81065672 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 23:14:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from oscaruser@programmer.net) Received: from imr-db03.mx.aol.com (imr-db03.mx.aol.com [205.188.91.97]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A326F8FC15 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 23:14:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from imo-ma02.mx.aol.com (imo-ma02.mx.aol.com [64.12.78.137]) by imr-db03.mx.aol.com (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id o2MNEP7k030269 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:14:25 -0400 Received: from oscaruser@programmer.net by imo-ma02.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v42.9.) id n.d63.55a715a6 (37583) for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:14:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smtprly-dc02.mx.aol.com (smtprly-dc02.mx.aol.com [205.188.170.2]) by cia-mb05.mx.aol.com (v127_r1.2) with ESMTP id MAILCIAMB058-d3874ba7f9c66d; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:14:21 -0400 Received: from web-mmc-d07 (web-mmc-d07.sim.aol.com [205.188.103.97]) by smtprly-dc02.mx.aol.com (v127.7) with ESMTP id MAILSMTPRLYDC027-d3874ba7f9c66d; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:14:14 -0400 To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:14:14 -0400 X-MB-Message-Source: WebUI X-AOL-IP: 72.29.180.81 X-MB-Message-Type: User MIME-Version: 1.0 From: oscaruser@programmer.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Mailer: Mail.com Webmail 31144-STANDARD Received: from 72.29.180.81 by web-mmc-d07.sysops.aol.com (205.188.103.97) with HTTP (WebMailUI); Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:14:14 -0400 Message-Id: <8CC982C85C86524-A6C-25C1@web-mmc-d07.sysops.aol.com> X-Spam-Flag: NO X-AOL-SENDER: oscaruser@programmer.net X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 23:27:31 +0000 Subject: NFS Read Only Mount & NFS-failover X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 23:14:27 -0000 Folks, Apparently Solaris has a mechanism for NFS failover, and is described=20 in the below URL reference. The key is that the NFS was mounted read=20 only & and the files systems have identical files so that the NFS=20 client can switch-over seamlessly. We have a similar need, but does=20 FBSD support this via NFS at all? If not, is there an alternative (AFS=20 or something) that achieves this end goal. Google searches said that=20 no, this is not available yet. Thanks, OSC http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid7_gci903711,00.html