[Planetlab-devel] Re: PlanetLab updates

[Mark Huang]

Adams, Robert wrote:
> Will the old and new PLC's report which nodes are in which version? That
> is, will the www.planet-lab show nodes disappearing and www2.planet-lab
> show nodes appearing in sites.xml until all nodes are moved over. I
> think I can make my slice manager talk to both APIs to add and remove
> slices, but asking www.planet-lab which nodes a slice is on and not
> getting any information about the slices allocated in www2.planetlab
> might be a bit confusing. And visa-versa.

Can you just add your slices to both DBs? We're already drowning in temporary 
scaffolding to manage this upgrade...any more and we're going to slip on this 
deadline as well and draw out the process.

> Could you be a little clearer on what information will be available on
> each system? Part way through the conversion, what will each of the PLCs
> report? How will we know which nodes are converted? Are you going to
> publish the list of which nodes are being converted in the next time
> period?

How about we delete nodes from the www.planet-lab.org DB as we move them to 
booting from www2.planet-lab.org?

--Mark
PlanetLab Operations