How to Use Client-Side Failover

1. Become an administrator.

   For more information, see Using Your Assigned Administrative Rights in Securing Users and Processes in Oracle Solaris 11.2 .

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 the /etc/vfstab file that resembles the following:

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

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   Note -  Servers that are running different versions of the NFS protocol cannot be mixed in a command issued at the command line or in a vfstab entry. Mixing servers that support NFS Version 2, NFS Version 3, or NFS Version 4 protocols can be performed only with autofs. In autofs, the best subset of NFS Version 2, NFS Version 3, or NFS Version 4 servers is used.

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