From: Garrick Staples <garrick@usc.edu>
Subject: Re: nfsd, rmtab, failover, and stale filehandles
Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 12:13:52 -0700
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On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 11:56:03AM -0700, Garrick Staples alleged:
> I'm trying to get a pair of NFS failover servers working correctly.  I've=
 got
> all heartbeat scripts worked out, the common storage, IP takeover, etc.  =
The
> only problem I have now is random stale filehandles after a failover.
> Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
>=20
> I was originally trying to doctor up rmtab and carry over the mount info =
to the
> second server, but according to recent docs, rmtab is no longer used and =
NFS
> requests should simply always work, as long as the filesystem is exported=
 to
> the client hosts.

Btw, I'm using linux 2.6.5, glibc 2.3.2, and nfs-utils 1.0.6.


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Garrick Staples, Linux/HPCC Administrator
University of Southern California

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