Hi,
How nfs can provide failover feature? Please help.
kapil
----- Original Message -----
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Hermann Lauer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Kapil Sharma"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 10:36 PM
Subject: Re: autofs - failover
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > hi ya hermann
> >
> > > > > > Try to mount mach1 first, if that fails, try mach2
> > > > > > Backup -fstype=nfs mach1,mach2:/Backup
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Is it supported on linux.
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > No. Please ask the author of mount(8) to support it if you want
it added
> > > > > (it's easy enough to make autofs support it, but I think it
belongs in
> > > > > mount.)
> > > > >
> > > > > -hpa
> > >
> > > Amd supports this - Isn't that in your Autofs/Amd FAQ, Alvin ?
> >
> > if the mount does not support it than autofs wont be able to...
> >
> > if amd uses its own mounting mechanism that i guess its possible...
> >
> > - i havent used amd in several yrs now since i changed over to autofs
> >
> > and am still interested but not looking for failover mountings
> > strategies for mailservers, webservers, home servers etc...etc..
> > - guess nowdays its called "high availability"
> >
> This is part of why I insist this is a mount/NFS issue: only NFS itself
> can provide failover.
>
> -hpa
>
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