Marking a DB server to never be the sync site

[Neulinger, Nathan R.]

I vaguely seem to recally something recently passing through the
openafs-devel list about "read only DB servers", so if that is what Ken is
talking about, then yes, it's in OpenAFS.

-- Nathan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Hornstein [mailto:kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 2:05 PM
> To: Jeff Blaine
> Cc: info-afs@transarc.com
> Subject: Re: Marking a DB server to never be the sync site 
> 
> 
> >We will have 5 DB servers soon (2 of those at remote sites) and would
> >very much like the servers at the remote sites to never be allowed to
> >become the sync site.  Those 2 servers have lower IP addresses than
> >our "core" 3 DB servers where 80% of all AFS work is done at HQ.
> 
> "Not in the base code".  Although ... if OpenAFS integrated the work
> that Hartmut Reuter did (as part of MR-AFS) then that 
> capability should
> be available in OpenAFS (but I don't know the status of that).
> 
> --Ken
>