recoverying from servers that are down

[David Howells]

Chaskiel Grundman <cgrundman at gmail.com> wrote:

> The server selection logic does not seem to actually attempt to
> recover when a server is marked down.

It's not really been tested.

> I would think that afs_volume_pick_fileserver should have two passes
> and use time_is_before_jiffies(server->fs_dead_jif) to decide to
> ignore server->fs_state on the second pass and use the server anyway.
> It appears that this might have been missed because if the server has
> no refs, it will be reaped and the remebered state discarded.
> 
> Is there an afs development tree I should be using/basing patches off of?

Linus vanilla.

David