Getting arla out of the funk

Magnus Ahltorp map at stacken.kth.se
Tue Oct 12 19:52:42 CEST 1999


> Once arla has (rightfully) decided a fileserver is down, it never
> notices when it gets back up, and it doesn't allow access to the
> resurrected servers.

Arla will notice when a server gets back up, but it uses an
exponential backoff mechanism.

> Is there any way to flush arlad's idea of what fileservers are down?

Yes. The command "fs checkservers" will recheck the status of the
servers and bypass the backoff mechanism.

/Magnus





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