Lease File of RAM Disk

Thu May 15 13:56:28 UTC 2014

On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 08:35:04AM -0400, Waqas Asghar wrote:
> Well I have a script in place which copies the lease file every five minutes to my harddisk.
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> I believe the option of starting the server again with an empty lease file should work since it should get the file populated from the backup server once it starts,however I just wanted to confirm my understanding of the process in which the primary & backup servers share lease files before I go for the reboot.

I believe you have to at least create an empty file--the server will refuse to start if there is no lease file present.