[Planetlab-devel] getslivers

[Thierry Parmentelat]

hi
I've checked in a new release of refreshpeers that performs slice 
caching while preserving local node ids.
So I've started to adapt GetSlivers to this new approach, and I have a 
few comments.
- within my (slice-caching) approach, I dont see why GetSlivers would 
care about foreign nodes; it *has to* deal with foreign slices though.
- within the alternative (sliver-caching) approach, GetSlivers would 
actually have to care about foreign nodes, but unless we go for a rather 
exhaustive caching policy (which I'd like to avoid), there will still be 
a few 'holes'  that the canonical plc will still need to fill.
- in any case the 'site_id' field in the slivers structure clearly 
cannot make sense with the sliver-caching approach
- finally I was wondering what the status of GetSlivers was, before I 
started tuning it, that is 8 hours ago. I found at least one major bug 
in there that suggested it never actually ran correctly, is this correct ?
thierry