On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 03:00:50PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > According to the NFSv4 spec (section 6.1), regarding fs_locations, > > On first access of the filesystem, the client should obtain the > value of the fs_locations attribute. If, in the future, the > client finds the server unresponsive, the client may attempt to > use another server specified by fs_locations. > > Does any known client actually fail over to another fs_location, as > described here? > > I am implementing the server side of this... AFAICT Linux barely uses > fs_locations, and Solaris just crashes. Yeah, Linux only uses fs_locations when it crosses a mountpoint to a new filesystem and finds that filesystem is only available elsewhere. Maybe AIX? --b. -- 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
