From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Ragnar_Kj=F8rstad?= Subject: Re: NFS & Clustering Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 18:25:55 +0200 Sender: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <20020904182555.C1582@vestdata.no> References: <95AF67BA7F70D511829B0002A551737001C9CB@faw-e01.faw.freudenberg.de> <1031155426.25370.2.camel@plokta.s8.com> <20020904182005.B1582@vestdata.no> <1031156560.25369.4.camel@plokta.s8.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Cc: Marco.Schwarz@Freudenberg.de, NFS@lists.sourceforge.net Return-path: To: "Bryan O'Sullivan" In-Reply-To: <1031156560.25369.4.camel@plokta.s8.com>; from bos@serpentine.com on Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 09:22:40AM -0700 Errors-To: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 09:22:40AM -0700, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote: > On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 09:20, Ragnar Kj=F8rstad wrote: >=20 > > Sure it is. mountd writes the information to disk - you just need to > > share that info between the servers. >=20 > That leaves you with an obvious race condition. For active/passive systems there are no race-conditions and it works fine. For active/active systems there would be a race, but it still wouldn't work because the data is (AFAIK) not reread from disk. --=20 Ragnar Kj=F8rstad ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: OSDN - Tired of that same old cell phone? Get a new here for FREE! https://www.inphonic.com/r.asp?r=sourceforge1&refcode1=vs3390 _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs