[8547] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
Re: Marking a DB server to never be the sync site
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Hornstein)
Wed Mar 14 00:09:44 2001
Message-Id: <200103140502.f2E52k909298@ginger.cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
To: info-afs@transarc.com
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 13 Mar 2001 17:58:13 EST."
<200103132258.RAA19255@quince.ifs.umich.edu>
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 00:02:46 -0500
From: Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
>If you had openafs or afs source, you could fool with the logic that
>computes the "lowest" host in ubik, which is in
>[...]
I've always felt that if you're going to go that route, you should
get rid of using an IP address for server ordering AT ALL. All you
really need is to determine if one server is "better" than another ...
and a simple ordered list would be enough.
--Ken
