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From: Jakob Oestergaard <jakob@unthought.net>
To: Scott McDermott <vaxerdec@frontiernet.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: NFS question
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 21:01:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030204200100.GA15609@unthought.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030204145020.A23244@newbox.localdomain>

On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 02:50:20PM -0500, Scott McDermott wrote:
> kernellist@source.intac.net on Tue  4/02 10:51 -0500:
> > I have quite a few servers running kernel 2.4.18. I need to replace an
> > nfs server that all my linux clients mount, and I want to know if
> > there is a way for me to do this without having to umount and remount
> > everything.
> 
> I *think* it will work if you keep major, minor, and inode numbers on
> the new server the same for anything clients have mounted.  These are
> used to construct the cookies handed to clients.

If you do not preserve inode numbers, it will for *certain* not work
(speaking of experience  ;)


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      reply	other threads:[~2003-02-04 19:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-04 15:51 NFS question kernellist
2003-02-04 19:50 ` Scott McDermott
2003-02-04 20:01   ` Jakob Oestergaard [this message]

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