NFS after takeover

[Tim Burke]

Lars,  just a followup question - correct me if I misunderstand the
situation.  NFS clients should be treating the file reference passed
from the server as an opaque handle.  Consequently if reiserfs passes an
object ID rather than an inode number, NFS failover should still work;
right?

Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
> 
> On 2000-07-26T22:28:59,
>    Jeffry Smith <jsmith at alum.mit.edu> said:
> 
> > Actually, this should work with any file system, as long as you use
> > shared SCSI (the two boxes see the same physical disk).
> 
> No - reiserfs doesn't work that way, since it has no concept of inode numbers,
> but instead 64bit object ids, which don't directly map to the 64bit NFS
> handle.
> 
> Sincerely,
>     Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb at suse.de>
>     Development HA