[Linux-HA] active active failover NFS server?

José Miguel Parrella Romero joseparrella at gmail.com
Thu Jul 19 10:03:35 MDT 2007


Sebastian Reitenbach escribió:
> Hi list,
> 
> I am going to build an active active NFS server, where one exports a public 
> directory, and the other the home directories. In case one fails, both 
> should be exported by the remaining one server. 

I evaluated using active/active NFS, and I found a nice article in [1] 
which uses exclusively Heartbeat to manage the NFS resource. An article 
in Linux Magazine seems to address the active/passive NFS with failover 
issue. I ended up using GFS for my active/active configuration.

HTH,
Jose

[1] http://chilli.linuxmds.com/~mschilli/NFS/active-active-nfs.html


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