From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "J. Bruce Fields" Subject: Re: Failover using wackamole? Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 14:21:01 -0500 Message-ID: <20050228192101.GD21364@fieldses.org> References: <42234450.9070004@cshl.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: nfs@lists.sourceforge.net Received: from sc8-sf-mx1-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.11] helo=sc8-sf-mx1.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list2.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1D5qRh-0000wN-D1 for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 11:20:45 -0800 Received: from dsl093-002-214.det1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([66.93.2.214] helo=pickle.fieldses.org) by sc8-sf-mx1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.41) id 1D5qRf-0003ZL-VX for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 11:20:45 -0800 To: "Vsevolod (Simon) Ilyushchenko" In-Reply-To: <42234450.9070004@cshl.edu> Sender: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing. List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 11:18:24AM -0500, Vsevolod (Simon) Ilyushchenko wrote: > I had this neat idea that NFS failover of read-only filesystems can be > achieved using wackamole (floating IP adresses providing very simple > HA). This did not work with NFS 3 because the filehandles are different > on the primary and the secondary servers, so I was getting a "stale NFS > filehandle" error after the failover. > > I tried this using NFS 4 nfs-utils-1.0.6-52 from FC3 updates. However, > it still failed with the following error: > ls: reading directory a: Input/output error > and this in the error log on the client: > kernel: RPC: garbage, exit EIO > > Is this a bug or a feature? Hm, there may be a bug there. But in any case v4 isn't going to help you here. It's constructing filehandles in exactly the same was as v3. --b. ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs