On Thu, 30 Oct 2014, Harald Barth wrote: > > > I just mention this because I don't think there's any way to avoid this > > one. Other userspace "clients" will not notice because they are > > short-lived processes, but anything that's long running, we don't have a > > way to notify of CellServDB changes. > > The usespace clients could leave "hints" (for example in a file) that > a cell has a bad DB server and then future userspace clients could do > something "intelligent" with the hints.
That seems like a fine fit for the "new configuration format" project which has been floated periodically. It's not going to happen without someone doing the work, though... -Ben _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
