Hi, On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 02:48:20PM -0400, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote: > > > On Friday, March 30, 2007 01:25:31 PM +0200 FB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>I'll bet you also haven't tried it with a fileserver down. > > > >Yes. Actually, my test cell has some fileservers and one of 3 db-servers > >down-by-default. The only impact is a short delay on bootup of the > >afs-client until ptdbnssd marked the db-server down. > > > >Did I mention, that the nss-plug is just a very small piece of software, > >talking to a local server process (ptdbnssd) which does the real > >PTDB-stuff? > > You did. I was talking about the case where you get shells or other > information from users' home directories, and one of the fileservers > housing user volumes is down, so you get to wait while it times out.
ptdbnssd currently doesn't access the filesystem - mainly because i don't need it (each one of my users is a bash fan :-) ). I'll include Adam's patch (slighly modified) - but it'll have to be enabled by a cmdline-parameter. Regards, Frank _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
