> > Hello there,
> >
> > I got a problem while trying to umount NFS. I have two web servers,
> > one exports its /var/www for NFS share and the other mounts it as its
> > own DocumentRoot too, thus I got two web servers with exactly the same
> > contents. If the one as NFS server malfunctions, the other NFS client
> > should umount its /var/www and link it to the other place.
>
> link it to what other place?
I rsync the NFS mounted /var/www to a local directory often on my NFS
client host. This can be my redundant DocumentRoot should NFS fail.
>
> > I wonder what makes this happen, and I think that controlling the
> > interface directly to meet my need is a bad idea. Any comment or
> > advice is appreciated.
>
> have you tried killing apache and anything else using /var/www
> (you can use lsof or another similar tool to find out what is using it)
> before unmounting?
Yes. I use lsof to grep the PID and kick them away always before
trying to umount /var/www. But this does not always work. If the
disaster (NFS not responding) happens, lsof will fail because it
tried to access my unavailable /var/www. By the way, I never try
to stop my apache server.
>
> AFS may be a better approach, though I haven't used it much. Or some
> other form of distributed filesystem.
>
> on my webservers if I need 2 with identical content I just use rsync.
>
Yes. rsync is a good way. However, since my /var/www is over 20000
files, with a total size around 400 MB and many developers dive into
it, I need a mechanism to keep these two /var/www EXACTLY identical
from either incoming or outgoing access. Hence NFS is my choice.
> depending on the kind of activity you do over NFS(e.g. read only or
> writing or lots of writing of small files etc), it may be advantageous
> to use another sytem to host the NFS, I have found that my redhat 7.3
> has a much more solid NFS implimentation then my debian 3.0 machines.
> Solaris's is pretty strong too. It may be my kernel(2.2.19) vs
> redhat's 2.4.18, but the bulk of the problems I have encountered
> with debian's NFS is the rpc.statd service(which appears to be
> completely userland based)
>
> nate
>
I appreciate these useful experience!
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