[Pvfs2-developers] Re: unifying config files

[Rob Ross]

Since our config file is text, can't we skip any encoding? I agree that 
it would be more concise, but we don't send config files around all that 
often.

Rob

Sam Lang wrote:
> 
> On Jun 20, 2007, at 1:54 AM, Murali Vilayannur wrote:
> 
>> Hi Sam,
>> I see..So do you wish that we fallback to parsing from server config
>> file if that were to be specified in place of a server-alias string in
>> command line..
>> That shouldn't be too hard, no?
> 
> Hmm...well if the server config file isn't specified, why can't the 
> server just get the hostname instead of requiring an alias?
> 
> Yeah I was thinking that if a server config was specified as the second 
> argument to the pvfs2-server, the server would go ahead and use those 
> values for endpoint, storage location, logfile, etc.
> 
>> Any updates on what the current stance on zero-conf based server
>> startups, i.e. is there still any interest and/or preferred
>> approaches? :)
> 
> Definitely still interest.  I'm not sure we've come up with an approach 
> yet.  I would argue a first step toward zero conf would be 
> encoding/decoding the config using the lebf encoding layer.  This would 
> give us a more efficient representation of the config, as well as make 
> it easier to modify at runtime.