On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 18:11:00 +0100 Jeffrey Altman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Steve makes a good point. There is a lot of redundancy. Since we are > using XML it would be better to avoid the redundancy when there are > unique IDs that can be used. For example, instead of including the > server details for each volume listed (vos listvldb lists many volumes) > it would be better to include just the UUID in the volume output and > then follow the volume list with a list of servers that are identified > by their UUID and specify the ip-addresses and dns names. I'm not too familiar with them, but XML's xrefs are a builtin feature to do this kind of thing. Using those, the user of the xml data doesn't need to contain the logic for matching up uuids to the server structures, I think. -- Andrew Deason [email protected] _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-devel
