[Pacemaker] how to keep ftp connection when swap from primary to secondary

[jimbob palmer]

The ftp connection is in the ram of the machine that dies, so for this
to work you'd need to synchronise state to the other machine the whole
time. I don't know of a cluster aware ftp server that can do this.

2010/8/26  <Liang.Ma at asc-csa.gc.ca>:
> Hi There,
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> I have followed the guide in “Clusters from Scratch” written by Andrew
> Beekhof and successfully setup an Active/Passive pair of cluster servers.
> The cluster runs in Fedora 13 and includes services like apache, vsftpd and
> nfs. Drbd is used to allow data consistence during a failover. Everything
> works fine except ftp lose its connection when the service swaps from
> primary to the secondary or vice versa. I know to keep the ftp connection,
> one may need to keep the connection states for the session across the nodes.
> But I couldn’t find clue how to do it. Does anyone there have any idea how
> to keep the ftp connection when swapping nodes, if it is possible?
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> Thanks,
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> Liang Ma
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