Re: [Linux-HA] Antw: Re: Q: NFS cross mounting

2012-12-22 Thread Lars Marowsky-Bree
On 2012-12-21T08:14:42, Ulrich Windl ulrich.wi...@rz.uni-regensburg.de wrote: In contrast with the NFS solution, the client applications would be blocked until NFS server is running on the other node. Obviously this solution seems preferrable. It just won't work reliably ;-) We'll see how

Re: [Linux-HA] Antw: Re: Q: NFS cross mounting

2012-12-22 Thread Fabian Herschel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/21/2012 08:14 AM, Ulrich Windl wrote: Dimitri Maziuk dmaz...@bmrb.wisc.edu schrieb am 20.12.2012 um 17:50 in Nachricht 50d341c3.1040...@bmrb.wisc.edu: Hi! So (pseudo-code following) if (host(NFS_server) == host(NFS_client))

Re: [Linux-HA] Antw: Re: Q: NFS cross mounting

2012-12-21 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On 12/20/2012 2:31 PM, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote: On 2012-12-20T10:50:11, Dimitri Maziuk dmaz...@bmrb.wisc.edu wrote: Well, they'll be wrong unless there's a way nfs-export an unmounted filesystem. A reasonable question would be why not symlink mount point - export point ;) That'd miss the

Re: [Linux-HA] Antw: Re: Q: NFS cross mounting

2012-12-20 Thread Lars Marowsky-Bree
On 2012-12-20T08:55:06, Ulrich Windl ulrich.wi...@rz.uni-regensburg.de wrote: 11.5.3.2. Mounting NFS Volumes Locally on the Exporting Server Mounting NFS volumes locally on the exporting server is not supported on SUSE Linux Enterprise systems, as it is the case on all Enterprise

Re: [Linux-HA] Antw: Re: Q: NFS cross mounting

2012-12-20 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On 12/20/2012 1:55 AM, Ulrich Windl wrote: Lars Marowsky-Bree l...@suse.com schrieb am 19.12.2012 um 18:29 in Nachricht 20121219172929.gg29...@suse.de: On 2012-12-19T10:59:12, Ulrich Windl ulrich.wi...@rz.uni-regensburg.de wrote: Unfortunately there was an update to SLES11 SP2 release

Re: [Linux-HA] Antw: Re: Q: NFS cross mounting

2012-12-20 Thread Lars Marowsky-Bree
On 2012-12-20T10:50:11, Dimitri Maziuk dmaz...@bmrb.wisc.edu wrote: Well, they'll be wrong unless there's a way nfs-export an unmounted filesystem. A reasonable question would be why not symlink mount point - export point ;) That'd miss the use case of being able to switch-over the server

Re: [Linux-HA] Antw: Re: Q: NFS cross mounting

2012-12-20 Thread Ulrich Windl
Dimitri Maziuk dmaz...@bmrb.wisc.edu schrieb am 20.12.2012 um 17:50 in Nachricht 50d341c3.1040...@bmrb.wisc.edu: On 12/20/2012 1:55 AM, Ulrich Windl wrote: Lars Marowsky-Bree l...@suse.com schrieb am 19.12.2012 um 18:29 in Nachricht 20121219172929.gg29...@suse.de: On 2012-12-19T10:59:12,

Re: [Linux-HA] Antw: Re: Q: NFS cross mounting

2012-12-20 Thread Ulrich Windl
Lars Marowsky-Bree l...@suse.com schrieb am 20.12.2012 um 21:31 in Nachricht 20121220203111.gx29...@suse.de: On 2012-12-20T10:50:11, Dimitri Maziuk dmaz...@bmrb.wisc.edu wrote: Well, they'll be wrong unless there's a way nfs-export an unmounted filesystem. A reasonable question would be

[Linux-HA] Antw: Re: Q: NFS cross mounting

2012-12-19 Thread Ulrich Windl
Lars Marowsky-Bree l...@suse.com schrieb am 19.12.2012 um 18:29 in Nachricht 20121219172929.gg29...@suse.de: On 2012-12-19T10:59:12, Ulrich Windl ulrich.wi...@rz.uni-regensburg.de wrote: Unfortunately there was an update to SLES11 SP2 release notes recently that forbid this kind of