On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 4:04 PM, Ben Greear <[email protected]> wrote: > One of our users is reporting that the CIFS failover case is not working > properly. They have a cluster of CIFS servers that migrate an IPv6 addr > to the active system. > > Evidently, our client-side CIFS connection follows the first migration, > but fails to go back to the original on a second failover. > > It could be any number of things, but I wanted first to see if anyone > knows how long client-side CIFS will keep attempting to regain contact with > it's > server? Forever? > > Thanks, > Ben
Depends on kernel version and also hard vs. soft (default) mount options. The "smb echo" approach that cifs moved to a few years ago allows the cifs kernel client to notice more quickly that the server is down, and significantly improved failover. Which kernel version? -- Thanks, Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
