[Linux-cluster] NFS client failover

[Marti, Robert]

Assign a virtual IP to that service, and it move with the "hosting" node in the cluster.

Rob Marti


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From: linux-cluster-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:linux-cluster-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Mike Cardwell
Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 6:20 AM
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Subject: [Linux-cluster] NFS client failover

Hi,

I have a small cluster which shares a filesystem via GFS on a SAN, with iSCSI. There are a couple of hosts external to this cluster which I would like to have access to the GFS filesystem via NFS. I have exported the same mountpoint on each of the hosts that have the GFS mount.

I can connect via NFS to one of these cluster hosts, but when it goes down, I have to unmount it, and then remount against another host. I suspect I could do something with a floating IP? but I was wondering if it would be possible to do this with client side logic so that the nfs mount automatically moves to a different working host if one stops responding?

I tried creating multiple A records in the DNS for a single host, and connecting to that hostname, but that doesn't seem to work. It seems to pick one of the IPs and stick to it. Any ideas?

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