[H-GEN] NFS timeout

[Jay]

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On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 16:24, David Jericho wrote:
> NFS doesn't work very well in a clustered environment. It's messy, and
> can be quite problematic.

Any particulars to watch out for?

> If redundancy is whats required, some more information would be needed
> as to what the purpose of the mount is, and the data stored within.

It's basically a general issue which has always bugged me and now it bites 
again. I just don't like to way for several minutes for a test boot to 
continue.

The background simply is that I pre-load many hard drives for deployment in 
new machines on a target network.

The pre-loading and testing is done on a different network. The idea then 
simply is to try to get around this stupidly long NFS timeout.

By the way things look I will be doing the ping thing with a set short ping 
timeout. That should do.

Another idea I had is to set up the host in question as a virtual host on the 
route of test network.

Only question is how do I do that. I know how to create a virtual interface. 
Have not quite figured out how to route the darn thing.

test network is 10.x.x.x, target network is 192.168.x.x

Cheers

Johannes


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