After relocation or failover of an nfs service in a RHEL cluster, client mounts are switched

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Issue

  • Why does nfs client mount the wrong volume after a reboot of a node in the cluster hosting those exports?
  • After relocation or failover of an nfs service in a RHEL cluster, client mounts are switched
  • After my nfs cluster service relocated to another node, clients had export1 mounted under export2's mountpoint, and vice versa

Environment

  • Red Hat Cluster Suite 4+
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Advanced Platform (Clustering)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 (with the High Availability Add on)

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