NFS Load balancing and failover ?

[Harald Milz]

In article <004101c12e95$66b49500$930110ac@icenet.net>, Dinesh <dksiwal@icenet.net> wrote:
> Can anyone of you help me to create a NFS file server with  Load-balancing and failover capabilities . The NFS server has just to give the Read-Only servises.No write facilities are needed . Since this will only be used to read the files from the server , and client will never be writing to the clients .

A load balancing solution would need no failover. If one of the servers is
gone, the dispatcher will route all traffic to the surviving node(s). The
dispatcher needs to be aware of the outage, though, but that is easy. 

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