[Pvfs2-developers] RFC: Config file overhaul

[Rob Ross]

Hi all,

Since I'm being discussed, I thought that I should chime in :).

I agree that what we're talking about here is just a couple of steps in 
the right general direction, not where we would really like to be in the 
long run.

The zero-conf concept sounds great to me, conceptually. However, I don't 
want to have an implementation of that that forces us into a dependence 
on a particular server for startup. More discussion might change my 
mind? I dunno.

Server-to-server (s2s) seems like the right way to do the config file 
verification in the long term. However, the code we're going to use to 
do that is just now shaping up. So we're not quite ready to do that yet.

So, I proposed (off-line) that we do this interim thing for now (which 
cleans things up quite a bit) and continue thinking and talking about 
how we might like the system to work in the longer term.

Regards,

Rob

Murali Vilayannur wrote:
> Hi pete,
> 
>> I thought with your discussion of getconfig/putconfig that you were
>> implicitly planning to get server-to-server communication to work
>> too.
> 
> I was planning on doing that. But it fizzled out because of RobR's concern
> about scalability and dependence on a single root server..
> 
>> What you describe here sounds like fine stuff.  And if later
>> somebody gets ambitious and wants to do more "zeroconf"-ish work,
>> they can build on this.  Thanks for the explanations.
> 
> Yep. Exactly. I hope so too :)
> thanks!
> Murali
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