NFS after takeover

[Luis Claudio R. Goncalves]

Hi!

On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Juri Haberland 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 don't know if this thread is dead but...
   We did some tests here, sometime ago, using knfs and heartbeat +
drbd. We put /var/lib/nfs on the mirrored area and, after the takeover
we did an

   exportfs -r

   on the new server. It reexports the NFS shares and leads us to a
happy end. :)

							Luis
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