NFS after takeover

[Juri Haberland]

System V wrote:
> 
> > First of all you should use the nfs patches from nfs.sourceforge.net
> > (that Dave Higgen/ Trond Myklebust stuff)!
> > Then you have to put the directory /var/lib/nfs on a shared medium so
> > that the second server that takes over can access the status of the old
> > nfs server.
> I've done the above, and used scp to copy the /var/lib/nfs just before i
> shut the primary node down.
> 
> But If I do a tail -f /var/log/messages&
> and try to list the nfsmount It twill won't work...
> 
-snip-
> 
> Yes, I'm using NFS3 now.

Stick to nfsv2. We had a lot of problems when switching to nfsv3 in an
non-ha environment...

greetings,
juri

-- 
juri.haberland@innominate.de
system engineer                                          innominate AG
clustering & security                                networking people
phone: +49-30-308806-45  fax: -77            web: http://innominate.de