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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
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> 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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