Redundant/failover NFS servers - stale NFS file handle

[Attila Nagy]

On 08/15/06 14:25, Brian Candler wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 08:43:28PM +0200, Attila Nagy wrote:
>>> We use NetApp Filer clusters (NAS) for that purpose.
>>> They aren't cheap, but they work very well.
>> I don't like blackboxes with nice GUIs. :)
> They have a command-line interface too :) Seriously, these are really
> excellent devices.
I know, but I would like to solve this problem without buying (or using 
our existing) NAS boxes.

>> I can solve this problem with Linux
> How?
With a shared filesystem of course.

BTW, I'm much more interested in the Solaris NFS failover mode now. Any 
chance that the NFS guys can take a look at it? It's a pretty old 
feature and can be very useful in any scenarios, where RO NFS mounts are 
enough.

Thanks,
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