Thank you Lyle! Three big cheers.
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Sep 7 19:19:16 1994
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> Subject: databases w/o quorum
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> This feature has been added in the 3.4 release of AFS. This change,
> together with the database preferences in 3.4, will make it much
> easier for large organizations to expand AFS throughout their
> environment.
>
> Note that it was only the protection server that was modified. All the
> other database servers always did give out r/o info even when not in a
> quorum.
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lyle Seaman) says:
> >
> > Would the availability of read-only access to database servers without
> > quorum alter your statements?
> >
> >
> > In other words, are y'all (those of you who are, that is) suggesting
> > transparent cross-cell volumes as a mechanism for dealing with this
> > database problem? Which, if it didn't exist, would prompt you to simply
> > use a single cell?
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