From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 25 00:46:17 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 7AAC0106566C for ; Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:46:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rmacklem@uoguelph.ca) Received: from esa-annu.mail.uoguelph.ca (esa-annu.mail.uoguelph.ca [131.104.91.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3146C8FC12 for ; Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:46:16 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvsEAOpOqkuDaFvI/2dsb2JhbACbG3O/e4R+BA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.51,304,1267419600"; d="scan'208";a="70221484" Received: from darling.cs.uoguelph.ca ([131.104.91.200]) by esa-annu-pri.mail.uoguelph.ca with ESMTP; 24 Mar 2010 20:46:15 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by darling.cs.uoguelph.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E16A94006C; Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:46:15 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at darling.cs.uoguelph.ca Received: from darling.cs.uoguelph.ca ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (darling.cs.uoguelph.ca [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id ODJER6Gp9eBp; Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:46:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: from muncher.cs.uoguelph.ca (muncher.cs.uoguelph.ca [131.104.91.102]) by darling.cs.uoguelph.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EF8F940064; Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:46:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (rmacklem@localhost) by muncher.cs.uoguelph.ca (8.11.7p3+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id o2P0xG203951; Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:59:16 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: muncher.cs.uoguelph.ca: rmacklem owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:59:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Rick Macklem X-X-Sender: rmacklem@muncher.cs.uoguelph.ca To: oscaruser@programmer.net In-Reply-To: <8CC982C85C86524-A6C-25C1@web-mmc-d07.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: References: <8CC982C85C86524-A6C-25C1@web-mmc-d07.sysops.aol.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:46:17 -0000 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