support for afsdb-driven-dynroot in arla?

Tomas Olsson tol at stacken.kth.se
Mon Jan 30 10:38:14 CET 2006


Harald Barth <haba at pdc.kth.se> writes:
> Today you either need to read the cellnames from CellServDB (you don't
> need the hostnames) or from a root cell of your choice.
> 
Or DynRootDB, of course.

> I made some stabs at it but never got a production-ready
> implementation. Other things have had higher priority, but of course
> it can be done, all the necessary mechanisms are in the code.
> 
It shouldn't be all that hard to get smth working if you have the time to
spend (a weekend or so I guess). The interesting parts are lib/ko for the
cell cache, and maybe some dynroot things in arlad.

It really would be a neat feature to have, I'll encourage you all as much
as I can :)

/t


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