From: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] auto reconnect for cpu servers
Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 11:50:42 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dd6fe68a0905121150s70de75edqc54aadc5160719bd@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <586aa74459bb99e8a715bc932a79b789@quintile.net>
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 11:43 AM, 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.
aux/reboot
there is also recover (gorka should know where the
source is these days) but that requires building a
custom kernel to connect through it, and i'm not
sure how well that particular setup works.
russ
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-12 18:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-12 18:43 Steve Simon
2009-05-12 18:49 ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-05-12 18:50 ` Russ Cox [this message]
2009-05-12 20:14 ` Gorka Guardiola
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