Tony Kew wrote:
Dear Phil,
Thanks for the info, I am on the dev list, so I've seen the twod_dist
debate.
They seem to have gone for the "fix on the fly" approach, where I would
have
preferred the setfattr to fail with a useful error message, or have the
server
reset the client settings to ones "in bounds" so you could tell from the
client
that the settings are getting overridden. I would also like to avoid
filling the
server with error messages - as happens at the moment if there is a problem
with num_groups > number_of_servers
We'll definitely stop the server error messages if nothing else.
Unfortunately I don't think we have a straightforward way to make the
setfattr itself fail. The setfattr just sets arbitrary extended
attributes. In the dist_params case those attributes don't get
interpreted until a new file is created and a few other configuration
settings can be taken into account.
-Phil
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