[OpenAFS] Re: heartbeat and OpenAFS

[Marc Schmitt]

Hi again,

Brent A Nelson wrote:
> Cool.  I shutdown the bosserver on one machine, hexedited the sysid file
> to match the UUID of the other server, did "vos changeaddr -remove" on the
> addresses listed under the old UUID (from "vos listaddr -printuuid"),
> restarted bos, failed-over the file server, and it worked!
> 
> The server-side fails over very quickly (a few seconds, depending on how
> long salvage takes), but active clients do experience some sort of timeout
> of a couple of minutes or so, even with the failover IP address... Any
> suggestions on how I might further minimize this delay?

Maybe you could turn off the salvager at startup and just salvage 
volumes that don't come online? Not sure how *dangerous* that is, though...

Greetz
     Marc