[OpenAFS] slave volumes

[Hartmut Reuter]

The client prefers servers in the same subnet. If this criterium is not
sufficient you may set the server preferences by command ("fs setserv").

Hartmut

Klaas Hagemann wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> as far as i understood afs, i can create severeal read-only replicas of a
> volume. How is the decision made, which of these replicas is taken?
> We have a distributes WAN and want to avoid that the Client takes a volume
> which is behind a very thin connection. For availability reasons all the
> replicas should stay available but in an ideal situation only the volume
> with the widest or fastest connection should be taken first.
> 
> Can someone explain me the algorithm used by OpenAFS?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Klaas
> 
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