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From: Phil Regnauld <regnauld@catpipe.net>
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Subject: Re: Redundant/failover NFS servers - stale NFS file handle
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Brian Candler (B.Candler) writes:
> 
> So to make an update, you would have to unmount from box 2, remount RW on
> box 1, make the change, remount RO on box 1, and mount RO again on box 2.

	To make it short: if you want a reliable NFS head, you need NetApp.
	If you want to make failover, you'll need something like WAFL that
	has virtual inodes and allows for concurrent access from multiple
	writers.  This is more of a freebsd-fs discussion.