Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750866AbWEHVRK (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 May 2006 17:17:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750838AbWEHVRJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 May 2006 17:17:09 -0400 Received: from wx-out-0102.google.com ([66.249.82.200]:10546 "EHLO wx-out-0102.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750866AbWEHVRI convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 May 2006 17:17:08 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=c02uSAhczUwpvu7TaI7m35GrvesMxXotnlk+WZW3tezxnzXSTu2Tq6reln1+aMPuwNGT0xvdpm8ugd0ImmKKcSiTyi4BaCR+mvKxjLtTIftrg7e2l8HiheUMe376QhSGYPL53svrod6I98ld5t6+bMfE7HsEdATOe1Acn4m48eM= Message-ID: <64b292120605081417y1684cba4kfb85ce39c14df0f7@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 16:17:07 -0500 From: "Circuitsoft Development" To: "Linux Kernel Mailing List" Subject: Fwd: Fwd: Extended Volume Manager API In-Reply-To: <64b292120605062123gdb302d2g201fa59e93bc6a25@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <64b292120604302226i377f1c37qd33db36693ea1871@mail.gmail.com> <200605010702.k4172Q5H006348@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <64b292120605010759h4d9c74d7s717d125018ab95d3@mail.gmail.com> <64b292120605011310n59ac3bdew2508bfa8b923adb3@mail.gmail.com> <64b292120605062123gdb302d2g201fa59e93bc6a25@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1196 Lines: 29 On 5/2/06, Rik van Riel wrote: > 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 > I'm not. They also need to get permission from the network before they write to the disk, and they're not going to get permission without hearing back from everybody. Besides, since the same network is used to connect to the disks as is used to connect the computers to each other, how would it be able to access the disks without being able to access other computers which also connect to the disks? (Sorry for the repeat, Rik) - 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/