[NFS] Replication for NFSv4

[Trond Myklebust]

On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 16:26 +0100, Simon Peter wrote:
> (I crosspost this to both NFS lists, as I think it is interesting to
> readers of either one)
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I developed a replication solution for NFSv4, allowing for a wide
> variety of replication strategies to be employed with NFSv4. It is
> entirely protocol based and thus works with all NFSv4 implementations.
> 
> It is still in beta stage, but already useable. If anyone is
> interested, a preliminary website with more information can be found
> here: http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~simon/replication/

Note that we already have some of the functionality required for
replication support in the 2.6.18 client. We do not have support for
advanced features such as client failover to other replicas, though.
Does your solution implement something like that?

Cheers
  Trond