[OpenAFS] sudden crash

Derrick J Brashear shadow@dementia.org
Tue, 30 Jul 2002 14:47:25 -0400 (EDT)


On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, FBO wrote:

> 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... :-(

You'd rather it wait until the server came back instead of satisfying your
request from other available identical data??