On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 15:00 -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. Hi Jeff, I'm working on finishing the migration code, and expect to have it ready soon. Until that, though, Bruce's suggestion of AIX is probably your best bet. AFAIK, they've had migration support in their client for several years. Cheers Trond -- 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
