Hi,

On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 10:48:18AM +0100, Mark Hunting wrote:
> Hello Dave,
> 
> Although not intensively tested, I did not have your locking problem
> during fail-overs. But before I started to test locking I noticed that
> not all nfsd processes were killed by Heartbeat, I solved that by
> calling a killnfsd script, containing nothing more than
>     killall -9 nfsd ; exit 0

Which distribution is that? They should fix their init script.

> This script is executed after "nfs-kernel-server stop" and "nfs-common
> stop", and, of course, effectively kills all nfsd processes. Maybe this
> prevents me from having your locking problems during fail-over?
> Excuse me if I should have replied to your original message, but I think
> it may be a bit inappropriate to answer a 2-year old mail.
> 
> It really surprises me that so few people are using linuxHA for NFS
> servers with locking. I think this is one of the most useful uses of
> linuxHA and DRBD!

Perhaps there are more than it seems judging by the list traffic.
There are quite a few people, I guess, who just run their
clusters without being too vocal about it.

Thanks,

Dejan

> 
> Mark
> 
> Dave Dykstra wrote:
> > Not to discourage you, but once you get past that you may also find you 
> > have problems with getting locks to survive server fail-overs.  See
> > my last posting I had on the subject was over 2 years ago:
> >     
> > http://lists.community.tummy.com/pipermail/linux-ha/2005-July/015357.html
> >
> > Nobody replied so I don't think very many people have tried doing locks
> > on linuxHA NFS.  I still don't know what to do about the discussion
> > on the HaNFS web page, and for the last year and a half I haven't
> > even worked at the company where I had a linuxHA NFS setup.
> >
> > - Dave
> >   
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