[ale] Multiple NFS servers for the same mount point?

[Erik Mathis]

Autofs is the way to go. You can set a primary and several secondaries. It
has decent docs to follow. DRDB is another way, it WAY more complicated to
setup.

-Erik-


On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Leam Hall <leamhall at gmail.com> wrote:

> I recall seeing a place use multiple NFS servers for the same mount point.
> That is, if NFS-1 is not available, then use NFS-2. However, I wasn't
> involved in the setup and am not sure if they were using Virtual IPs or if
> mount can actually have an "servera or serverb" option.
>
> What's the current best practice for setting up a shared filesystem with
> reliability, failover, and good replication? If distro matters, this is
> more towards Ubuntu.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Leam
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