NFS vs Local mount

[Sean OB_1]

Hello,

If a cluster has packages that normally run on different nodes and NFS mount directories from another package, is there an easy way to tell the package to use the locally mounted directory in the event that the packages have failed over to the same node?

[Brian Vance]

How does it access the files when the other packages are not failed to this node (NFS?)

[Alan Meyer_4]

in a script, grab the package location from the cmviewcl command and if the location matches the local machine, utilize the local disks


but you are going to run into difficulties if the other package switches independant of the one being configured

[generic_1]

If you can, move away from NFS. IT will save you outages in your cluster. Move the package across the san if at all possible, by activating the other volume group. Also keep all your NFS stuff in one package if you do use it. Only one /etc/xtab.

[Devender Khatana]

Hi,

What you are trying to achive is not a recomended configuration in my opinion. You should always club all NFS mounts within a package to avoid such problems.

HTH,
Devender

[Devesh Pant_1]

You can have action scripts called from the package startup in place to check the hostname and act accordinly for the nfs mounts when the package fails over.

thanks
DP

[Brian Vance]

In your monitor script you can have the system look for those packages to be running on this node. You can then umount the appropriate NFS mount and then use the local file systems. I would recommend mounting the the NFS file system to the same place as the local file system. (mounting over it)