Hi,
 
I have recently set up a two node cluster (on ubuntu 10.04LTS servers) using 
drbd, nfs & pacemaker/heartbeat.   Everything is working well so far.   I have 
some questions about best practices for the clients that are mounting the 
volume via NFS and hope people here have some advice.   Specifically, I'm 
curious about some of the NFS mount options like proto=udp vs proto=tcp,  hard 
vs. soft, nfsvers=3 vs. nfsvers=4, appropriate timeo= values, should intr be 
set, etc.   I've already noticed that during failover with a low timeout and 
soft mount, i can get NFS errors while the shared ip switches over, so I'm 
pretty sure I want to use hard.  Others options I'm not so sure about.  I've 
read some conflicting statements from various people on different blogs/mailing 
lists.

I've looked over http://www.drbd.org/docs/about/ and 
http://www.drbd.org/users-guide/ and haven't seen anything specifically going 
over these questions.  Any advice or pointers to documentation would be greatly 
appreciated.

I understand that this question leans a bit more towards NFS than drbd, but if 
I posted to a general NFS mailing list, most people wouldn't have experience 
with this kind of set up.  Hopefully people on this list with a similar sort of 
setup have some words of wisdom to offer. 

Brian Hirt
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