[Linux-HA] HA-NFS with heartbeat 2.x

Alan Robertson alanr at unix.sh
Fri Oct 28 07:09:00 MDT 2005


Kian_Chang_Low at veritasdgc.com wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> HA-NFS works great with heartbeat 1.2.x.
> 
> Now, I'm wondering whether HA-NFS can work with heart 2.0.x. I was thinking
> of a HA cluster of 8 nodes; so in a NFS scenerio, 7 will be NFS primary
> servers while 1 is a standby secondary servers. I guess the storage will
> have to be a SAN so that the standby server can take over any of the 7
> primary servers if one of them failed.
> 
> Is this doable? Any body had tried this?

AFAIK, this will work only if each NFS server serves different filesystems.

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