From: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Subject: Re: High Availability NFS Proposal
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:12:48 +1000
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On Saturday August 24, James.Bottomley@steeleye.com wrote:
> 
> I'll proceed in two phases: mountd first to give a HA solution and statd next 
> to give the complete HA-NFS solution.  The hooks should be useable by any HA 
> clustering software on Linux.

Any progress on this?... The idea seems quite sound.
My only suggestion would be not to depend on the existance of a
program in /var/lib/nfs, but rather to have such a program specified
as a command line argument.  It makes it more explicit.

Also, the need for this support in mountd will almost certainly go
away in 2.6 (that is what I am working on at the moment) but ofcourse
2.4 is going to be around for a while so it is probably still worth
while.

NeilBrown


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