J. Bruce Fields [bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx] wrote: > > Only answers can be dumb! Bruce, we have ext3/ext4 file systems on two > > separate servers. The file systems are mirrored using rsync as and when > > needed. We would like to use the servers as replicas. > > And why aren't you rsync'ing the underlying filesystem image instead? > Is that too slow? The file system image is too big to do entire image level rsync'ing. > > Since the file systems are mirrored using "rsync", the NFS file handles > > each server exports would be different. We would like to use volatile > > file handles feature of NFSv4 for this. > > In theory the hidden directory for reverse lookups would work, but it > seems like it would be complicated to get right: > - How do you generate the directory and keep it up to date? > - What happens if somebody breaks the rules and updates the > filesystem while it's being exported? I think so too. We think Volatile file handle support on the client side is simpler for our use case (read only NFS file systems) Regards, Malahal. -- 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
