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Date:      Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:59:16 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca>
To:        oscaruser@programmer.net
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: NFS Read Only Mount & NFS-failover
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.63.1003242058150.2194@muncher.cs.uoguelph.ca>
In-Reply-To: <8CC982C85C86524-A6C-25C1@web-mmc-d07.sysops.aol.com>
References:  <8CC982C85C86524-A6C-25C1@web-mmc-d07.sysops.aol.com>

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On Mon, 22 Mar 2010, oscaruser@programmer.net wrote:

> Folks,
>
> Apparently Solaris has a mechanism for NFS failover, and is described in the 
> below URL reference. The key is that the NFS was mounted read only & and the 
> files systems have identical files so that the NFS client can switch-over 
> seamlessly. We have a similar need, but does FBSD support this via NFS at 
> all? If not, is there an alternative (AFS or something) that achieves this 
> end goal. Google searches said that no, this is not available yet.
>
The google search is correct w.r.t. NFS. I don't know enough about AFS
to answer w.r.t. it.

rick





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