Phil Pishioneri writes:
> If we're voting, I think we'd like to see the problem of "time outs" [1]
> corrected before that of multi-home db servers. While the solution
> of separate db servers does cost money, at least it's easily solved.
>
> [1] The problem (mentioned before on this list) where an application
> receives an ETIMEDOUT (errno==78) because an AFS client has lost
> contact with a fileserver. We'd like to see an AFS client act similarly
> to an NFS client which has mounted a filesystem with the "hard,intr"
> options.
Phil,
Be careful what you wish for.
I suggest that you experiment with NFS "hard,intr" for a while first.
We found that if a keyboard command caused a shell (csh) to search
through a "cdpath", elements of which were on a server which was
unavailable, the shell would hang uninterruptibly. This was
debilitating enough for us to switch to "soft".
I hope I remembered this correctly. It was a long time ago.
-Rick
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