On Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:51:51 -0400 "Talpey, Thomas" <Thomas.Talpey@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > At 11:18 AM 6/9/2008, Jeff Layton wrote: > >No, it's not specific to NFS. It can happen to any "service" that > >floats IP addresses between machines, but does not close the sockets > >that are connected to those addresses. Most services that fail over > >(at least in RH's cluster server) shut down the daemons on failover > >too, so tends to mitigate this problem elsewhere. > > Why exactly don't you choose to restart the nfsd's (and lockd's) on the > victim server? The victim server might have other nfsd/lockd's running on them. Stopping all the nfsd's could bring down lockd, and then you have to deal with lock recovery on the stuff that isn't moving to the other server. > Failing that, for TCP at least would ifdown/ifup accomplish > the socket reset? > I don't think ifdown/ifup closes the sockets, but maybe someone can correct me on this... -- Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
