Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751530AbWEETDk (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 May 2006 15:03:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751525AbWEETDk (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 May 2006 15:03:40 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:63643 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751507AbWEETDj (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 May 2006 15:03:39 -0400 Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 08:42:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Rik van Riel X-X-Sender: riel@cuia.boston.redhat.com To: Circuitsoft Development cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Fwd: Extended Volume Manager API In-Reply-To: <64b292120605011310n59ac3bdew2508bfa8b923adb3@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <64b292120604302226i377f1c37qd33db36693ea1871@mail.gmail.com> <200605010702.k4172Q5H006348@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <64b292120605010759h4d9c74d7s717d125018ab95d3@mail.gmail.com> <64b292120605011310n59ac3bdew2508bfa8b923adb3@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 692 Lines: 18 On Mon, 1 May 2006, Circuitsoft Development wrote: > I was actually planning on a 5msec timeout to ignore that computer, > for now, then if I don't get a response within 100msec, ping them, > and permenantly remove them from the list of peers and broadcast a > "this peer is dead" message to the network if the ping times out at > 500msec. How are you going to prevent your "dead" peer from writing to the disk anyway ? -- All Rights Reversed - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/