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Re: Is SMB LVS-able?

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Subject: Re: Is SMB LVS-able?
From: Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 21:45:26 +0200
On 2001-10-25T14:52:33,
   Joseph Mack <mack.joseph@xxxxxxx> said:

> using LVS to NFS export files from realservers
> has problems with failout
> 
> http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/Joseph.Mack/HOWTO/LVS-HOWTO-11.html#ss11.27
> 
> as the filehandle for a given file will not be the same
> for different realservers.
> 
> Does anyone know the situation for exporting files by SMB?
> Is this LVS-able?

It just might be.

SMB specifies that clients should try a silent reconnect when the connection
to the server fails; they might even survive a switchover to a new server.

(However, Linux doesn't (didn't?) implement this silent reconnect in its
smbclient code for a long time)

Sincerely,
    Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@xxxxxxx>

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