[OpenAFS] Future of AFS? Interesting Ideas!?

[Mattias Amnefelt]

On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 10:44:25PM +0100, Benjamin Rodewald wrote:
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> Hallo,
> i know it isn`t easy to keep AFS stable AND to implement new Ideas.
> But anyway. Maybe It`s worth to discuss them:
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> 1. Replicated RW -Volumes
> - - Should be hard to implement
> - - Hard to operate over WAN Links
> - - Great for maintaining high availabilty (in LANs)
> Isn`t it possible to implement them with the same type of locking cahemanager 
> uses. Cachemanager holds a lock for locally stored files and gets a notice 
> whenever he must get a new copy from the network. Am I right?
> So isn`t this an Idea to use for RW-Replicas?
> I think there`s no other solution?

There was a undergraduate degree paper writen on this at by Noora
Peura at KTH. The report is available at

http://www.stacken.kth.se/~noora/exjobb/index.html

/mattiasa