Hi,

what mount command do you use on your clients?

Do you get error-meesages about stale NFS mounts on your clients?

Are major and minor number of the device where your NFS-filesystem
resides the same on all your cluster-nodes?


Kind regards,

Nils 

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> Subject: [Linux-HA] NFS locks
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> Can someone please help?
> 
> I have 2 servers providing access to the same data and need 
> to implement Linux-HA to provide failover between the 2. The 
> trouble is, when the 1st server is switched off, the NFS 
> client doesn't automatically remount the second server.
> 
> When accessing the HA IP when server 1 is down, I get routed 
> to the 2nd , so HA is working, but NFS will not automatic 
> switch without forcing a umount -a of the NFS file system on 
> the client or rebooting the client machine.
> 
> Regards
>  
> Geoff Dunk
> High Performance Computing Engineer
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