On Sun, 30 May 2004 02:43:37 -0500 "adp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am running a FreeBSD 4.9-REL NFS server. Once every several hours our main > NFS server replicates everything to a backup FreeBSD NFS server. We are okay > with the gap in time between replication. What we aren't sure about is how > to automate the fail-over between the primary to the secondary NFS server. > This is for a web cluster. Each client mounts several directories from the > NFS server. > > Let's say that our primary NFS server dies and just goes away. What then? > Are you periodically doing a mount or a file look-up of a mounted filesystem > to check if your NFS server died? If so are you just unmounting and > remounting everything using the backup NFS server? > > Just curious how this problem is being solved. > > > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" >
Have you looked into amd (or, am-utils) ? I haven't used its failover feature, but it certainly does have it. horio shoichi _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"