[OpenAFS] networking thought/question

[Charles Clancy]

On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, seph wrote:

> Charles Clancy <security@xauth.net> writes:
>
> > On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Tim C. wrote:
> >
> >>        server fs1.afs partition /vicepa RW Site
> >>        server fs1.afs partition /vicepa RO Site
> >
> > What purpose does that serve?  That RO copy seems to be just wasting drive
> > space.  If it were on a different partition, IMHO, it would at least have
> > debatable value.
>
> As it's a clone, it takes up very little disk space.
>
> Further, if you don't have it, then you'd be depending on server2, as
> afs does not failover to using the RWs if the ROs are unavailable.

I was under the impression if there were 2 RO and 1 RW, it would pick them
each with probability 1/3.

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