Re: NFS Redudancy

[Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> client machine in a failover situation.  If my primary nfs server dies,
> and my secondary takes over the first, can nfs clients handle this?  
> Something tells me nfs wouldn't be very happy in this situation.

IFF your NFS servers are running some kind of duplexing protocol and handling
write commits to both disk sets before acking them then the protocl is good
enough - for any sane performance you would want NFSv3

The implementations are another matter