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Can I run one or more of the cluster nodes as highly available NFS server(s) with other cluster nodes as clients?

April 26, 2017clients cluster highly NFS nodes run s server

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Can I run one or more of the cluster nodes as highly available NFS server(s) with other cluster nodes as clients?

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No. Issues exist with local locking interferes having the ability to kill and restart lockd (which occurs during NFS failover). Between the kill and restart, a blocked local process can be granted the lock, which prevents the client system that owns the lock from reclaiming it after failover.