On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 12:27:06PM -0400, Sal Tepedino wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 19:10 +0900, Simon Horman wrote:
> > The only reason that LVSSyncDaemonSwap exists is to cope with
> > old (<=2.4.26) kernels that could only run the backup or master deamon,
> > not both. If you have a newer kernel, just run both daemons on boot.
>
> So, what's the proper way to start the sync daemon on 26 kernels?
> I assume a:
> ipvsadm --start-daemon master
> ipvsadm --start-daemon backup
> on boot. I put it in rc.local. Is there a 'right' way to do it?
Unless your distrubition supplied an init script to do it for you,
then yes, that is right.
> > Incidently, the sync deamon doesn't have a way to flush connections,
> > so I recommend setting autofailback to off.
>
> The kernel based one? Why would it need to flush connections instead of
> just letting them timeout?
If you have autofailback turned on, then as soon as the original
master comes back up, it will once again be the master, but
there is a good chance that connections won't have been synchonised
to it yet.
> And do you have any ideas as to why my failover is not happening
> properly?
Not at this stage :(
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