A bit of history first. Our original NFS server (Server A) is getting old. It exports a bunch of files systems, ie: /home/u3, /home/u7, under which are a bunch of user directories. To minimize downtown, my strategy was to tackle migration to a new NFS server (Server B) user by user (we don't have tons). In the end what I have now is all the user directories on Server B, but I have kept the original mount points still exported on the Server A, with all the user subdirectories now defined as symbolic links to the new mount points on Server B. This has worked very well actually, very little downtime for anyone, and people did not have to stop computation runs (some of which take weeks). Now comes the interesting part. I want to move the original mount points over to Server B ! Question : Can I export the SAME mount points on 2 NFS servers for the same subnet ? I figure yes, because any particular NFS client will *target* a particular server. BUT the RPC nature of the NFS protocol makes me a bit nervous about doing so. Can anyone provide their experience in this ? For what it's worth, Server B defaults V4, Server A is V3, with a mix of V3 and V4 clients. Much appreciated. Maiko Langelaar IT Physics and Astronomy University of Manitoba 204-474-9273 -- 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
