>>> Lars Marowsky-Bree <l...@suse.com> schrieb am 11.03.2014 um 12:45 in Nachricht <20140311114553.gk13...@suse.de>: > On 2014-03-11T12:37:39, Ulrich Windl <ulrich.wi...@rz.uni-regensburg.de> wrote: > >> I'm wondering: Does "unlock" mean that all file locks are invalidated? If > so, >> I think it's a bad idea, because for a migration of the NFS server the > exports >> will be stopped/started, thus loosing all locks. That's not what a HA >> NFS-Server should do. HA NFS-Servers try hard to preserve locks. > > No. Specifically, this feature was explicitly designed for HA take-over: > http://people.redhat.com/rpeterso/Patches/NFS/NLM/004.txt
So if I understand it correctly, the machanism applies where the nfsd is kept running while the exports, ip addresses and filesystems underneeth change. Right? This is only one scenario how to do it. I'm also wonering how a matching cluster configuration would look like. > > > > Regards, > Lars > > -- > Architect Storage/HA > SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, > HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) > "Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes." -- Oscar Wilde > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-HA mailing list > Linux-HA@lists.linux-ha.org > http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha > See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems _______________________________________________ Linux-HA mailing list Linux-HA@lists.linux-ha.org http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems
