[Pacemaker] Is synchronizing rmtab needed?

[Florian Haas]

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 1:36 AM, Christoph Bartoschek
<ponto at pontohonk.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> we currently have the problem that when the NFS server is highly used the
> heartbeat:exportfs monitor script fails with a timeout because it cannot
> write the rmtab to the exported filesystem within the given time.

So, how about increasing the timeout?

> My question is now. Is it necessary to synchronize rmtab? Shouldn't the
> clients just reconnect after a timeout?

Synchronizing the rmtab is meant for the clients being able to
reconnect correctly after NFS _failover_, not just a brief network
hiccup between the NFS client and server.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Florian

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