Awesome, thanks. Steve
On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 2:59 PM Benjamin Kaduk <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 02:53:13PM -0400, Steve Simmons wrote: > > To make a long story short, we're going to be moving the network on which > > our afsdb servers reside from one data center to another. Trust me, you > > don't want to know the details. This will required a period of time > wherein > > all the current afsdb hosts are down. The fileservers will not be > affected. > > > > To minimize the pain during the transition, we're temporarily adding a > > fourth non-voting server and updating CellServDB files appropriately. > Some > > questions have come up about how the clients will react to this change > and > > the best strategy to pursue for them. Complicating this are clients > running > > various versions of openafs, most of which are recent 1.6/1.8, but there > > are a few 1.4.14/15 clients out there. All the clients referred to here > are > > running various flavors of Linux. Yeah, I could read the code for all > > those versions, but in case someone happens to know: > > > > Does a client read the CellServDB only at startup? Can it be forced to > > re-read it without a restart? > > > > If a CellServDB contains multiple entries (4) for a given cell, does the > > client process them in any particular order (round robin, random, other)? > > If some are non-responsive, will the client give preference to the > others? > > Look at fs newcell and fs setserverprefs. > > -Ben >
