How to Use Client-Side Failover

1. Become superuser.

2. On the NFS client, mount the file system using the ro option.

   You can do this from the command line, through the automounter, or by adding an entry to /etc/vfstab that looks like:

   bee,wasp:/export/share/local - /usr/local nfs - no -o ro

   This syntax has been allowed by the automounter in earlier releases, but the failover was not available while file systems were mounted, only when a server was being selected.

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   Note -

   Servers that are running different versions of the NFS protocol cannot be mixed using a command line or in a vfstab entry. Mixing servers supporting NFS V2 and V3 protocols can only be done with autofs, in which case the best subset of version 2 or version 3 servers is used.

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