Kieran, I'm currently experiencing a similar problem with an HA NFS server that I just built on RHEL4 with GFS. I have two different linux clients, one running RHEL3 U8, the other running RHEL4 U5 (same as the HA NFS servers) If I use the same standard mount options on both clients (e.g. mount SERVER:/exportfs /mountpoint -t nfs -o rw,noatime ) then everything works fine until I perform a failover. At that point the RHEL 3 client is OK but the RHEL 4 client can no longer stat the filesystem (df hangs). If I move the service back the hung df command completes. I don't see an I/O error per say but any copies to and from that mountpoint are inactive until I relocate the service back. I tried other versions of Unix and found that all of them could stat the file system after failover except the RHEL4 U5 version. The only way round this I've found so far is to use the udp protocol instead of tcp with version 3 nfs. So my mount commands look something more like this: # mount SERVER:/exportfs /mountpoint -t nfs -o rw,noatime,udp,nfsvers=3 I dont know if you can tolerate udp in your environment but it might be worth playing around with. Regards, Paul <table width=100%> <tr valign=top> <td width=40%>kieran JOYEUX <kjoyeux@jouy.inra.fr> Sent by: linux-cluster-bounces@redhat.com 08/16/2007 03:15 AM <table border> <tr valign=top> <td bgcolor=white> <div align=center>Please respond to linux clustering <linux-cluster@redhat.com></div></table> <td width=59%> <table width=100%> <tr> <td> <div align=right>To</div> <td valign=top>Linux-cluster@redhat.com <tr> <td> <div align=right>cc</div> <td valign=top> <tr> <td> <div align=right>Subject</div> <td valign=top>[Linux-cluster] NFS failover problem</table> <table> <tr valign=top> <td> <td></table> </table> <tt>Hi guys, I am implementing a two node cluster sharing via NFS, their local storage to one client. At the moment, i am simulating a failover during a copy from the NFS server to the local client disk. The first time i got a NFS file handle error. I tried to use a Filesystem ID (fsid) on the mount parameter of the client but now here is my issue: [root@**** ****]# time cp 1Go.t* /usr cp: reading `1Go.tyt': Input/output error My cluster.conf : <?xml version="1.0"?> <cluster alias="mig_nfs" config_version="128" name="mig_nfs"> <fence_daemon post_fail_delay="0" post_join_delay="3"/> <clusternodes> <clusternode name="ha1" votes="1"> <fence> <method name="1"> <device name="barriere" nodename="ha1"/> </method> </fence> </clusternode> <clusternode name="ha2" votes="1"> <fence> <method name="1"> <device name="barriere" nodename="ha2"/> </method> </fence> </clusternode> </clusternodes> <cman expected_votes="1" two_node="1"/> <fencedevices> <fencedevice agent="fence_manual" name="barriere"/> </fencedevices> <rm> <failoverdomains> <failoverdomain name="mig_fod" ordered="1" restricted="0"> <failoverdomainnode name="ha1" priority="2"/> <failoverdomainnode name="ha2" priority="1"/> </failoverdomain> </failoverdomains> <resources> <ip address="138.102.22.33" monitor_link="1"/> <nfsexport name="/usr/local/genome"/> <nfsclient name="mig" options="ro,fsid=20" path="/usr/local/genome" target="138.102.22.0/255.255.192.0"/> <nfsclient name="mig213" options="fsid=213,ro" path="/usr/local/genome" target="138.102.22.213"/> <nfsclient name="mig217" options="ro,fsid=217" path="/usr/local/genome" target="138.102.22.217"/> </resources> <service autostart="1" domain="mig_fod" name="nfs"> <ip ref="138.102.22.33"/> <nfsexport ref="/usr/local/genome"/> <nfsclient ref="mig"/> </service> </rm> </cluster> If you have any ideas or remarks, i would love to hear them. Thanks a lot. Kieran -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster </tt>