[plug] Anyone here interested in NFS and familiar with thekernel implementation?

[Ian Kent]

On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 13:28 +0800, Shayne O'Neill wrote:
> Could you just use heartbeat? 

Explain?

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] On
> Behalf Of Ian Kent
> Sent: Wednesday, 20 September 2006 12:39 PM
> To: plug at plug.org.au; mark at mjg.id.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] Anyone here interested in NFS and familiar with
> thekernel implementation?
> 
> On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 12:10 +0800, Mark J Gaynor wrote:
> > What does it entail?
> 
> Basically, NFS v3 and v2 failover.
> 
> For example userspace mount syntax like (there's other possible syntax):
> 
> mount -o ro s1,s2,s3:/dir/other /path
> 
> then NFS kernel client needs to identify when server is no longer
> available and failover to another server.
> 
> There's code to create a list of servers ordered by ping time within
> proximity (ie. network proximity) that would be passed to the kernel.
> Initially we can use the simplifying assumptions that if locks are held
> by the mounted fs we will not failover and the all the hosts in the
> failover list must have the same NFS protocol version.
> 
> > 
> > Mark
> > --
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> > 
> > On 20/09/2006 at 11:26 AM Ian Kent wrote:
> > 
> > >Hi,
> > >
> > >I'm wondering whether anyone locally would be interested in working 
> > >on a little NFS project with me?
> > >
> > >Any takers?
> > >
> > >Ian
> > >
> > >
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