[Planetlab-devel] getslivers

[Mark Huang]

Thierry Parmentelat wrote:
> - within my (slice-caching) approach, I dont see why GetSlivers would 
> care about foreign nodes; it *has to* deal with foreign slices though.

Because as I suggested yesterday, GetSlivers() could be used by peers as the 
mechanism by which they retrieve foreign slice information, rather than a 
combination of GetSlices(), GetSliceAttributes(), GetPersons(), GetKeys(), etc. 
This was the whole point of GetSlivers()...to make it easier on both Node 
Manager, and peers.

> - in any case the 'site_id' field in the slivers structure clearly 
> cannot make sense with the sliver-caching approach

Right. Remove the NOT NULL constraint, then.

> - 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 ?

Worked for me (for Node Manager) as of a couple of days ago, but I probably 
bugged out. What is the bug?

--Mark