[Linux-cluster] RHEL4 cluster NFS

[Robert Peterson]

Matthew Geier wrote:
>  I'm beating my head against the wall trying to figure out how to do
> this properly.
>
>  I have a active/passive file server running Samba (and NetAtalk) all
> running fine. I'm using ext3 file systems on an EMC san and have all the
> failover stuff mostly sorted.
>  Only I need to export one of the filesystems with NFS as well.
>
>  Not finding an obvious way to do an NFS export in system-config-cluster
> (no where to enter the file system I want to share), I put the export in
> /etc/exports.
>  Only now the 'file service' will not shutdown cleanly as it can't stop
> NFS on the exported volume thus can't unmount it...
>
>  I put in a support call with Redhat (my cluster file service will not
> shutdown cleanly) and after a little to-and-fro they have said I have
> NFS incorrectly configured.
>
>  But after much searching the web, i'm even more confused. Many articles
> on Redhat's site (and others) are for RHEL 3 and not RHEL4. Things they
> say to do I can't, or the config file format has changed, etc.
>
>
>  Any one have a concise example on how to NFS export an ext3 filesystem
> on RHEL U4 cluster suite. ?
>
>  Thanks.
>   
Hi Matthew,

Have you looked at my NFS/GFS cookbook?  It's not too different for EXT3,
and it has concrete examples.
http://sources.redhat.com/cluster/doc/nfscookbook.pdf

Regards,

Bob Peterson
Red Hat Cluster Suite