On Sunday, September 18, 2011, Herbert Poetzl wrote: > On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 10:53:24PM -0400, Chuck wrote: > > i am trying to mount the entire contents of /vservers from an > > nfs share rather than locally. the mount works, but showattr > > indicates i have lost the Barrier attribute and cannot re-set > > it.... the ony workaround i have found is to mount each > > vserver/guestname via nfs and not the /vservers dir.. that is > > a LOT of nfs mounts!! more than 30 on one machine. > > > won't that present performance problems? > > mostly depends on the server and on the amount of > possibly shared data ... > > > is there a way to set the barrier on an nfs mounted /vservers > > dir? > > well, the bad news is, as longs as the server doesn't > support the additional attributes, there is no way to > set the barrier flag on an nfs share, the good news > OTOH is, that the barrier most likely isn't needed > anymore with recent kernel/patches ahh.. yeah been trying to set the barrier on the mountpoint... cool im updating all the gentoo kernels to 2.3.0.36.32 and the util-vservers to 0.30.216_pre2955 is that new enough we may not need the barrier? i would *really* rather not mount 30+ nfs mounts on each machine or have them ready to roll.. this is an idea so that if one machine dies, another can take over just by starting them. > > HTH, > Herbert > > > -- > > Chuck > -- Chuck