Hi, In general like the proposed solution better than the current, but an extension which allows the distribution to see the aliases of the servers would be neat as well. This certainly would solve the issue of placing datafiles.
>Julian, how would this stuff fit in with your migration/hints stuff? I use the actual server aliases as targets to ensure proper placing of the datafiles in an environment with miscellaneous sets of dataservers. In my opinion a decoupled system for file creation and the distribution parameters seems important to allow later relocation of datafiles to another data servers without conflicting with the distribution parameters. Therefore, the location of the datafiles should be transparent for the distribution and never be set in the distribution parameters itself. Another reason not to store this info in the distribution parameters is that once the target dataservers are determined this information simply becomes obsolete. Julian _______________________________________________ Pvfs2-developers mailing list [email protected] http://www.beowulf-underground.org/mailman/listinfo/pvfs2-developers
