On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 05:43:32PM +0200, Stijn De Weirdt wrote: > (pls keep me in cc, i'm not subscribed to this list) > > i am trying out the replicas feature of exportfs, but i'm unable to > get it working. > > i would like to know if what i'm trying to is actually implemented > in linux (or intended behaviour of replicas in the first place). > > 2 nfs4 servers with cluster filesystem (gpfs in my case). the os is > sl6.4, i've enabled the nfs version 4.1 on the server (from my > understanding, 4.0 should be enough?). > > i would like to test if the replicas features can be used for > failover support of a rw nfs export. ie > a. mount nfs from server1 on client > b. start some IO activity on client on the mounted filesystem > c. poweroff server1 > d. after a certain amount of time, IO continues using server2 > > (the client i'm testing with is also el6.4 atm.) No, the client has no support I'm aware of for failover to replicas. --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
