[OpenAFS] sudden crash

[FBO]

On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 10:52:23AM -0400, Nickolai Zeldovich wrote:
> > what is the expected behavior if i'm reading a big
> > file from a replicated RO-Volume and the server
> > (I'm actually reading from) crashes?
> 
> The client will time out on the read RPC and try another one of the
> read-only replicas.
That's a pity... :-(

[snip]
> > What if the crashed server was the DB-Server
> > currently used (another one is available)?
> > How long will the cachemanager try to contact
> > the crashed server until he decides to
> > choose the other one?
> 
> Same as for file servers; AFS_RXDEADTIME, which is 50 seconds
> typically.
> 
> -- kolya
Thank you very much.

FBO