[8404] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
Re: [OpenAFS-devel] Re: Backups using commercial products
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeffrey Hutzelman)
Thu Jan 4 18:27:24 2001
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 17:58:43 -0500 (EST)
From: Jeffrey Hutzelman <jhutz@cmu.edu>
To: Lyle Seaman <lws@spinnakernet.com>
cc: Mitch Collinsworth <mitch@ccmr.cornell.edu>,
Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>, info-afs@transarc.com,
"'openafs-devel@openafs.org'" <openafs-devel@openafs.org>
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On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Lyle Seaman wrote:
> You could add a mechanism for external lockers, the tricky
> part that I was hinting at is what do you do when the external
> locker goes away without releasing the lock, et cetera.
You can already have multiple fssync clients -- the salvager uses
this when you salvage a single volume with the server online. It
would not be hard to design a service that allows things not on the
server machine to attach volumes, but I don't see any use in it.
-- Jeff
