Redundant/failover NFS servers - stale NFS file handle

[Chuck Swiger]

On Aug 15, 2006, at 12:37 PM, Brian Candler wrote:
>> I think Solaris also makes a reliable NFS platform, and it even
>> supports failover and replication for read-only mounts.  For read/
>> write replicated filesystems, you're probably looking at AFS (Andrew
>> File System, but an opensource version is at www.openafs.org from
>> IBM, who apparently bought out Transarc) or maybe Coda.
>
> Hmm, I'm not sure I'd want to run Maildir on either of those, or at  
> least
> Coda. When I looked at Coda, ISTR you could have conflicting  
> updates in
> disconnected operation which required manual intervention to fix.  
> Admittedly
> this was a few years ago, maybe things have moved on since then.

I'm not sure about Coda & Maildir, but AFS has been used with Maildir  
for more than fifteen years with sites with tens of thousands of user  
accounts...

-- 
-Chuck