Re: [Pvfs2-developers] RFC: Config file overhaul

2006-09-27 Thread Rob Ross
I feel like the HUP should be a full server restart? Clients don't have a way to know that they need to reload the config file, currently. Likewise, since someone could just kill the server and then restart with a totally different config file, I don't think that we want to try to enforce any

Re: [Pvfs2-developers] RFC: Config file overhaul

2006-09-27 Thread Phil Carns
Ok- just kinda checking to make sure of what you guys had in mind. If the HUP is a full restart of the server, then it will complain on its own if the config file doesn't match what's in the storage space, so that isn't really a danger. It also means that pretty much any tuning parameter is l

Re: [Pvfs2-developers] RFC: Config file overhaul

2006-09-27 Thread Phil Carns
I have a few questions about some details of the implementation: - What exactly will a HUP do on the server side? For example, is this pretty much a full server restart, a restart of the I/O components (job/trove/bmi/etc.), or just selectively reseting parameters that can be changed dynamical