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Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 12:49:28 -0600
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From: andrey mirtchovski <mirtchovski@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] auto reconnect for cpu servers
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see aux/reboot. it reboots the cpu server upon loss of remote fs connection.

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net> wrote:
> Is there a technique or program that can be used on a diskless
> cpu server to make it auto-reconnect when the file server reboots?
>
> I remember reading about the Challange file servers at the labs,
> in which (I believe) the cyclone driver would write reboot to
> /dev/reboot if the connection dropped.
>
> Is there somthing similar I could do elegantly with a tcp/ip
> connection? I could just do a readdir(2) of / every 10 secs and
> reboot if that fails but I assume somthing already exists.
>
> -Steve
>
>