Whit, Thank you for those answers. I'll investigate UCARP and autofs and give you feedback Anthony > Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 09:00:31 -0400 > From: whit.gluster at transpect.com > To: sokar6012 at hotmail.com > CC: whit.gluster at transpect.com; gluster-users at gluster.org > Subject: Re: How to know clients currently connected ? > > > In my understanding of autofs is that it will mount as you need the > > filesystem but will it remount the FS when there is a server crash ? > > Anthony, > > I haven't specifically tested it in this precise context, but in general > that's exactly what it does. We went to using autofs because we had a server > that was prone to crash. With autofs, as soon as that server came back up, > it got remounted. Very reliable for that. > > When a server crashes the mount goes away. When you ask for a filesystem > with autofs, if it's not there, it tries to mount it. I don't see how it can > even know if you've switched which system has the IP and filesystem it's > trying to mount. I know for sure it works well in a setup with > DRBD/Heartbeat/NFS, so it ought to work as well for Gluster/UCARP/NFS. From > autofs's perspective, it's just NFS. > > Whit > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20110906/fda70686/attachment-0001.htm>
