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 _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info