Hello !
TruCluster 5.1 has the restriction that NFS mounts (as client) are
done on a per member basis, and this single member then exports the
mounted filesystems clusterwide. As we have several users with high
bandwidth traffic (SUN NFS server), I decided to distribute user
directory mounts among the members of the cluster to balance network
loads.
But this means that some filesystems will not be available if a
member is shut down. Autofs provides a way of failover as a CAA
service, but it also mounts a complete map on only one member.
My idea is to run several autofs daemons, each with it's (disjoint
from others) auto_map files, which serves a specific group of
users, and has a set of preferred servers for failover.
But I don't know how to register several autofs daemons in CAA with
their respective maps. Must there be alias names for each autofs
(symbolic links, as autofs_1,...) to provide different names
for the CAA service ? Is it even possible to rename the autofs daemon ?
Is the whole idea feasible ?
I would appreciate any help and will summarize.
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Dr. Udo Grabowski email: udo.grabowski_at_imk.fzk.de
Institut f. Meteorologie und Klimaforschung II, Forschungszentrum Karslruhe
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Received on Fri Jul 20 2001 - 09:47:48 NZST