Re: Some very basic questions

2008-10-24 Thread Chris Samuel
On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:50:33 am Chris Mason wrote: > As someone else replied, NFS is stateless NFS up to and including v3 is, but NFSv4 is stateful. -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC This email may come with a PGP signature as a file. Do not panic. For more info s

Re: Some very basic questions

2008-10-24 Thread Chris Samuel
On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:19:06 pm Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: > You have a NFS server with clients. Your NFS server dies, your backup > server cannot take over the clients without them resetting their NFS-link > (which means reboot to many applications) - no way. We're getting way off btrfs here