[Pvfs2-developers] host id

[Sam Lang]

On May 13, 2008, at 3:10 PM, Phil Carns wrote:

> I don't think we have any globally valid fixed sized identifier for  
> the servers.  The only option I know if would be to use a handle  
> (for example, the first handle in the server's mapping) to represent  
> each server.  I think just using the string name would be safer,  
> though.

Index into the list of aliases in the config file works too, as long  
as you don't store it anywhere.  I have some functions that map index  
to bmi addr if you want them.

-sam

>
>
> -Phil
>
> Walter Ligon wrote:
>> Hey guys,
>> we're needing to send a server host identification on the wire.  In  
>> the config the host_id appears to be a variable length string.   
>> Should we just use that, or is there something else of fixed size  
>> I'm not aware of?
>> Walt
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