[8560] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
Re: Marking a DB server to never be the sync site
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Blaine)
Wed Mar 14 10:06:12 2001
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 10:01:55 -0500
From: Jeff Blaine <jblaine@linus.mitre.org>
To: Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
cc: info-afs@transarc.com
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>> 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.
Amen.
"Lowest IP address" seems so completely arbitrary and clearly causes
_unnecessary_ problems for cell admins.
Could someone from IBM please comment on this?
Unfortunately, we're in no position to be migrating to any custom-built
OpenAFS solution. I should have mentioned that in my original message.
