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[Andrew Bennetts <andrew.bennetts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Robert Collins wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Jeroen Vermeulen <jtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 2010-07-22 18:47, Robert Collins wrote:
> >
> >> Librarian is covered already, we have 2 or so I'm told, and they
> >> should be staggered. (If they aren't, we'll have to stagger them :))
> >>
> >> So we should be ok.
> >
> > As long as failover is built into the Librarian client, that is.  Is it?
> 
> the staggered rollout would be gracefully done - and it hits a squid
> cache anyway, which does the load balancing. So I think we're fine. If
> we're not, it will be shallow.

The squid cache isn't relevant to librarian *uploads* though, surely?

So the upload client does need to be taught to failover gracefully (if
it hasn't already).

-Andrew.