> 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?
Wasn't this what {Open}AFS was designed for ?. Even allowed locally cached
copies to be used and/or editted (not saved) when the server went away.
And yes failover is available for configuration.
Never tried it, but it looks like s390x is an option.
Shane ...
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