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From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: Saurabh Sehgal <saurabh.r.s@gmail.com>
Cc: nfs@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: Nfs Failover
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 09:40:54 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071010134054.GA31732@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2a46ebd60710100638k5665f025vbadb8d7194262f1a@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 09:38:18AM -0400, Saurabh Sehgal wrote:
> I will be sure to try that and see if I get the same problem ...
> 
> I am exporting an ext3 filesystem ...

So you're using a shared block device?

> Does that change anything ?

It's just important to make sure you're exporting the *identical* ext3
filesystem from the two servers--copies made above the filesystem level
(using cp or rsync or whatever) aren't sufficient to ensure that
filehandles stay the same.

--b.

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-10 13:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-09 19:40 Nfs Failover Saurabh Sehgal
2007-10-09 19:51 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-10-09 20:08   ` Jordi Prats
2007-10-10 13:38     ` Saurabh Sehgal
2007-10-10 13:40       ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-01-11  3:02 nfs failover Eric Ford
2004-01-11  4:55 ` Brian Tinsley

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