[OpenAFS] Server preferences (conf file, better algorithm)

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Jean-Marc Chaton wrote:

> How advanced is Derrick's BetterServerPreferences project:

Not. The description more or less matches something Arla has code for 
(which may be enabled by default; I'm not sure)

The problem is in their case they round-robin among replicas making it 
easy to determine what is closest, and we do not.

>    *  BetterServerPreferences? allow selectable continuous or on-demand
>    *  server preferences in clients based on available information
>    *  about Rx connection round trip times instead of classful
>    *  networking approach currently used. Contact DerrickBrashear. Do
>    *  this for vldb servers too, or is that a separate project?
>    *  TedAnderson