Tom Orban <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >DB servers provide only DB services. What about having these do AFS file
> >services also? I recently raised this same question to Transarc, and their
> >response was "most sites run AFS file services on the DB systems as it is not
> >cost effective to buy a server license for just DB services".
>
> That's just beautiful!!!! Transarc knows most sites run both file services
> and DB services on the same machine and yet they just made the multi-home
> support apply to strictly file servers?
>
> Is there anyone else who feels mislead? When we first purchased AFS, they
> said "multi-homed servers would be supported in 3.4", and now they just sent
> that blurb that says it only affects strictly file servers, not DB servers,
> or combined file/DB servers. What a waste!
Tom,
_Most_ sites don't have multi-homed file _or_ database servers, so I
don't believe there is any inconsistency.
I'm sorry that you feel cheated by the fact that we limited
the support of multi-homed servers in AFS 3.4 to file servers only.
This was a decision that I made in an attempt to constrain the scope
of the problem so that we could solve it in the available time, and
ship 3.4.
Pardon my naivete, but what problem are you trying to solve that can't
be addressed by replicating the database servers?
Lyle.
