[OpenAFS] R/W replication

[Dirk Heinrichs]

Nathan Neulinger wrote:
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> Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
> >
> > Derek Atkins wrote:
> > >
> > The reason I asked was that in case of inavailability of the "master"
> > volume, clients cannot save their changes. There could also be anothe=
r
> > solution, that in case the server of the RW volume goes down, one of
> > it's RO replicas will automatically be switche to RW, as long as the
> > original volume is down.
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> That logic is fine so long as the volume is truly "down"... But what
> happens if it's just inaccessible on the network. A lot of people do
> replicas geographically distributed, in which case, that condition will
> be relatively common.
It could be optional, on a per volume basis.

Bye...

	Dirk
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