[Pvfs2-developers] TroveMethod configuration parameter

[Phil Carns]

> Good call.  I went ahead and committed both of these changes.

Great- thanks!

> FWIW, I'm not crazy about the redundancy that we have for filesystems  
> in the fs.conf and the collections.db.  Would anyone else be in favor  
> of getting rid of the collections.db altogether?  I looked at the  code, 
> and the only time we ever use that db is when we create or  delete a 
> collection, or to verify that an fsid is valid.  pvfs2- showcoll uses it 
> to print all of the collections, but for all these  cases we could just 
> use the entries in the fs.conf, or look for  actual directories in the 
> storage space.  The advantage to removing  the collections.db would be 
> that trove_initialize wouldn't need a  method for itself, independent of 
> the individual collections.  Thoughts?

That seems reasonable to me.  Can this be done without breaking storage 
space compatibility?  It seems like it should- newer servers would 
probably just ignore the old collections.db if it is still laying around.

-Phil