[tahoe-dev] Multiple introducers / single grid

[David-Sarah Hopwood]

On 18/01/13 21:36, Tom Vecchione wrote:
> Hi David-Sarah-
> Another brief question, if you don't mind.  I followed your earlier
> email.  I stopped all tahoe nodes, created a new introducer node,
> modified the tahoe.cfg files w/ the new introducer.furl, started
> all the nodes.  All my files and dirs from various client nodes are
> good, visible and retrievable.  Yay!  Thanks for your help.
> 
> My question:
> I stopped the new introducer node, verified the pid was gone from the
> ps table.  I go to a client and do a tahoe ls or tahoe get and it
> still works.  I thought the introducer node process had to be running
> in order to access the tahoe grid?

The introducer only has to be running in order to make connections between
client and server processes. Once those are connected, the introducer isn't
needed for as long as the client and server processes keep running.

-- 
David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥

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