[OpenAFS] heartbeat and OpenAFS

Derrick J Brashear shadow@dementia.org
Fri, 14 Mar 2003 16:04:43 -0500 (EST)


On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Brent A Nelson wrote:

> Has anyone already created a failover OpenAFS file server or have any tips 
> to share on how to do it?
> 
> I have two OpenAFS servers with /vicepa kept in sync between the two
> machines with DRBD.  I'd like to have heartbeat failover a single IP
> address between the two machines and manage the starting/stopping of fs,
> but the volume database seems to be too "smart" for that; when the address
> fails over, the volume database rejects the update from the newly started
> file server processes on the new machine, as the failover IP address was
> already registered with the first machine.

making the uuid the same on both machines would solve the problem you're
having.