NFS Read Only Mount & NFS-failover

[Rick Macklem]

On Mon, 22 Mar 2010, oscaruser at programmer.net wrote:

> Folks,
>
> Apparently Solaris has a mechanism for NFS failover, and is described in the 
> below URL reference. The key is that the NFS was mounted read only & and the 
> files systems have identical files so that the NFS client can switch-over 
> seamlessly. We have a similar need, but does FBSD support this via NFS at 
> all? If not, is there an alternative (AFS or something) that achieves this 
> end goal. Google searches said that no, this is not available yet.
>
The google search is correct w.r.t. NFS. I don't know enough about AFS
to answer w.r.t. it.

rick