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Re: NFS on LVS, from a newbie
I'll suggest you to not rely on NFS, if you plan to serve LVS as database
server because NFS locks do not work properly and in case of concurrent
write access you will face problems.


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On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, [iso-8859-1] Frédéric Schwien wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > NFS just doesn't lend itself to replication of 'live' filesystems in
> > this manner. It was never a design consideration when it was being
> > developed (over 15 years ago, now!)
>
> I plan to build up an LVS server (I ''l start testing next week end), with
> some real servers sharing the same Disk via NFS. After your says, I do not
> know if I have to reconsider NFS to share this access . I surfed around the
> web and found others networked file systems, like GFS (Global Files System).
> This because, obviously, if the server that holds my NFS disk crashes or
> goes down, the whole LVS will be down !
> In fact, I thought about NFS rather than GFS , just because i do not have
> enought time to test it !
>
> What I would like to know is what are you using, experiment LVS users, to
> share hard disks between real servers ? NFS ?
>
> well , this is not the proper idea of this mailling list (I know), but since
> you were talking about NFS ...
>
> thanks a lot ...
>
> fred
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