How to Use Client-Side Failover

1. Become superuser or assume an equivalent role.

   For information about roles, see “Using Privileged Applications” in System Administration Guide: Security Services.

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

   You can mount from the command line, through the automounter, or by adding an entry to /etc/vfstab that resembles the following:

   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 by using a command line or in a vfstab entry. Mixing servers that support NFS V2 and V3 protocols can only be done with autofs. In autofs, the best subset of version 2 or version 3 servers is used.

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