[318] in Athena_Backup_System
Re: Jonathon Weiss: Re: Minutes of 19 Sept Meeting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Sun Sep 29 16:16:16 1996
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: delgado@MIT.EDU
Cc: athena-backup@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 26 Sep 1996 18:50:54 EDT."
<9609262250.AA02564@ops-5.MIT.EDU>
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 16:16:11 EDT
> It seems that the vlserver interface supports a VL_GetAddrs
> call which gets the ip address of all file servers.
>
> We could fetch the address of all the fileservers, execute a
> gethostby address call for each address and then do the server name
> pattern match on the results.
>
> We then do a VL_ListAttributes for the selected server names;
> from there on we can pattern match any volume names.
If I understand this correctly, it sounds reasonable.
Jonathon
