Having the validator pull from the upload server(s) makes a lot more sense than a daemon on the upload server pushing work to the local storage.
Sorry for missing the obvious. David Anderson wrote: > In principle, upload servers should be able to share storage, or not. > This feature was put in for CPDN, which at one point planned to > have several upload servers scattered around the world. > > However (now that I think about it) there's a flaw in the current design: > when the client reports a completed result to the server, > it doesn't say which upload URL was used successfully. > So the backend daemons (e.g. validator) wouldn't know which > upload server to get the file from. > > -- D > > Mark Pottorff wrote: >> So, am I correct with the assumption that if multiple upload servers are >> used, that they are all presumed to be on the same storage network, or server >> code would need customization to cross check with all upload servers to >> respond to the file size queries? And that customization to support an >> incomplete upload that fails over to another server would be required as >> well? > _______________________________________________ > boinc_dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev > To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and > (near bottom of page) enter your email address. > _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
