[AFS3-std] fileserver to fileserver RPCs

[Derrick Brashear]

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Jeffrey Hutzelman <jhutz@cmu.edu> wrote:
> --On Tuesday, May 11, 2010 09:45:14 AM -0400 Derrick Brashear
> <shadow@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> As part of the work done by Vishal Powar, my Google Summer of Code
>> student two years ago, we have the start of readwrite replication in
>> RT (http://rt.central.org/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=114116)
>>
>> It necessarily adds a server to server RPC protocol, which is below.
>> However, it is effectively the needed subset of RPCs to create data,
>> and the client ViceId of the caller.
>>
>> I intend to offer a standards proposal for this, instead using the
>> signatures of the proposed "RPC refresh" RPCs, again with the client
>> ViceIds added, with the idea that an additional Rx "service" is run on
>> each fileserver to accept these.
>>
>> Would this be a reasonable proposal?
>
> Sounds reasonable.
> For a new service, let's start RPC numbers at 1; there's no reason to start
> with large values in a service where we don't have to worry about IBM
> allocating numbers out-of-process.

I meant to change those to XXX; That was from his reference patch,
which used the existing Rx service and just added RPCs, while he was
testing.

-- 
Derrick