From: Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@serpentine.com>
Subject: Re: NFS & Clustering
Date: 04 Sep 2002 09:40:08 -0700
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On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 09:24, Emanuel Quass wrote:

> but doesn't it work if you share /var/lib/nfs/* (containing etab, rmtab, sm,  
> sm.bak, state, xtab)?

Not reliably.  You're left with a single point of failure, for one
thing.  You also have races between one server permitting a mount and
others knowing that the mount has been allowed, which can confuse
clients.

	<b


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