NFS Read Only Mount & NFS-failover

[oscaruser at programmer.net]

Hi Rick,

I have read your response, thank you for that information. I have two 
other questions. Does NFS on FBSD support read-only mounts? In practice 
I have seen some posts that claim it does not function properly or 
mounts are found in 'rw' mode, but docs clearly read how the 
configuration should be written. Also is NFS usable for production env?

Thank you.


-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Macklem <rmacklem at uoguelph.ca>
To: oscaruser at programmer.net
Cc: freebsd-fs at freebsd.org
Sent: Wed, Mar 24, 2010 5:59 pm
Subject: Re: NFS Read Only Mount & NFS-failover


 
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