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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