J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 03:45:22PM +0200, kieran JOYEUX wrote: > >> For the moment the two nfs share's content are the same. I use scp to copy >> them. It's static so i did it just once. >> > > So, you just did something like this?: > > scp -r /shares/someshare/ otherserver:/shares/ > > >> To resolve that NFS file handle error, i mounted the share with a static >> fsid for each client. >> > > That's not enough. > > >> Unfortunately, even with a FSID, i still have an >> error during the failover while copying from the NFS share to client's >> local disk... >> >> cp: reading `/usr/local/genome/1Go.txt': Input/output error >> cp: reading `/usr/local/genome/1Go.tyt': Input/output error >> cp: cannot stat `/usr/local/genome/1Go.tzt': Permission denied >> > > That's expected. You can't just copy the files across with scp, or > rsync, or tar. > > I think, if you're _that_ low on budget, moving the whole scenario to a vmware server setup is a good idea. Marc's http://www.open-sharedroot.org/ Website contains some information about how to do this (although for a shared root cluster). Are you preparing this for production? cheers, Rainer -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster