From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Subject: Re: Nfs Failover
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 09:40:54 -0400
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On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 09:38:18AM -0400, Saurabh Sehgal wrote:
> I will be sure to try that and see if I get the same problem ...
> 
> I am exporting an ext3 filesystem ...

So you're using a shared block device?

> Does that change anything ?

It's just important to make sure you're exporting the *identical* ext3
filesystem from the two servers--copies made above the filesystem level
(using cp or rsync or whatever) aren't sufficient to ensure that
filehandles stay the same.

--b.

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