Re: Failover in NFS

[Jan Niehusmann]

On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 08:34:55PM +0530, Rashmi Agrawal wrote:
> 2. If nfs server node crashes, I need to failover to another node
> wherein I need to have access
> to the lock state of the previous server and I need to tell the clients
> that the IP address of the
> nfs server node has changed. IS IT POSSIBLE or what can be done to
> implement it?

Have a look at drbd, http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/reisner/drbd/.
Using that, together with heartbeat, you can build a nice failover nfs
server.

Jan