Haven't used this feature for a while, but last I knew, automounter maps could specify multiple servers. But it was/is a "first responder wins" kind of thing, so it might be better to have an alias IP address for your NFS server which your alternate server assumes when the primary fails. The former is cooler, but the latter gives you more control.
On 2009-12-23, CHAPLIN, JAMES (CTR) <[email protected]> wrote: > We want to create a central location for all zLinux server's user home > directory located on a common server (using NFS?) with some method of > failover if that server is down. Is there a file system that crosses > different servers that can be mounted by one system as the user home > file system, and then can fail over to another system if that (NFS > holding the Home Directories) server goes down? > > Right now as I understand NFS, if we use an NFS to hold user home > directories, if the hosting server is taken down, no one can log into > any of the other zLinux guests. > > Can anyone point me to a sample or documentation to resolve this? > > James Chaplin > Systems Programmer, MVS, zVM & zLinux > Base Technologies, Inc > Supporting the zSeries Platform Team > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > -- Sent from my mobile device -- R; <>< ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
