Whit, Thank you for those answers. I'll investigate UCARP and autofs and give you feedback
Anthony > Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 09:00:31 -0400 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > CC: [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] How to know clients currently connected ? > > > In my understanding of autofs is that it will mount as you need the > > filesystem but will it remount the FS when there is a server crash ? > > Anthony, > > I haven't specifically tested it in this precise context, but in general > that's exactly what it does. We went to using autofs because we had a server > that was prone to crash. With autofs, as soon as that server came back up, > it got remounted. Very reliable for that. > > When a server crashes the mount goes away. When you ask for a filesystem > with autofs, if it's not there, it tries to mount it. I don't see how it can > even know if you've switched which system has the IP and filesystem it's > trying to mount. I know for sure it works well in a setup with > DRBD/Heartbeat/NFS, so it ought to work as well for Gluster/UCARP/NFS. From > autofs's perspective, it's just NFS. > > Whit >
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