On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 10:02:19PM +0200, sebastien cabaniols wrote: > Hello linux-nfs mailing list. > > I would like to know if the linux nfs client included in current > versions of the kernel supports fail-over to a replica on another nfs > server, I am using (manually) synchronized read-only shares... > > I found very few information on Google about this topic and I suspect > this is not implemented. That's correct (unless I've missed something!). > I actually tried to setup this using SLES12SP1 (3.12.49 kernel) but I > failed so far. I am not attached to this distribution/version in > particular, just trying to see it working for real. > > ( I did some "rpcdebug -m nfs" session and it seems the fs_locations > is not getting properly populated on my setup ) > > Any confirmation this should work or not would actually help me. > > THX. > > > note from the exports man page: > > replicas=path@host[+host][:path@host[+host]] > If the client asks for alternative locations for the > export point, it will be given this list of alternatives. > (Note that actual replication of the filesystem must be > handled elsewhere.) Yes, the server side (assuming you've got the backend replication working) is pretty easy, and should work (though I don't know if it's gotten any testing). The client has the harder job here. --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
