[lvs-users] load balancing nfs realservers - Anyone done this?

[chris barry]

On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 14:15 -0800, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, chris barry wrote:
> 
> > My primary question, and indeed the wall I'm hitting is how to
> > effectively get the mount request through the director, to a realserver,
> > and back.
> 
> I showed how to do it in the LVS performance paper I wrote 
> and I expect it's in the nfs section of the HOWTO. It's just
> 
> mount -t nfs VIP:/directory /mount_point
> 
> > I did just have a look at the FAQ, and it mentions that the nfs for
> > single-port is using udp - not tcp. Is this an issue?
> 
> I don't expect so, although I haven't heard back from anyone 
> trying nfs/tcp.
> 
> on failover make sure the clients can handle the stale file 
> handles.
> 
> Joe
> 

Thanks Joe.

I'll re-RTFM ;)

Do you have a link to the perf paper handy?

Thanks,
-C