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Re: Files System for Clusters

To: John Cronin <jsc3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Files System for Clusters
Cc: Lorn Kay <lorn_kay@xxxxxxxxxxx>, lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
From: Joseph Mack <mack.joseph@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 11:07:04 -0400
John Cronin wrote:

> >
> > But NFS does not help with redundancy does it? What if the NFS server goes
> > down?
> 
> Have a second NFS server on standby, 

someone else on this list is the expert on this...

the file handles that nfs generates are derived from the location of the file on
the disk.
File handles for the same file on different disks/machines will be different.
When you failover nfs backend-servers, the clients will get stale file handles.

Joe

-- 
Joseph Mack PhD, Senior Systems Engineer, Lockheed Martin
contractor to the National Environmental Supercomputer Center, 
mailto:mack.joseph@xxxxxxx ph# 919-541-0007, RTP, NC, USA


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