> So what advantages do you want to gain by replicating RW volumes? It > does not help you in case of network outage, since the above mentioned > immeadiate propagation of changes to all offices requires a working > network connection anyway, regardless wether this is between client > (office 1) and server (office 2) or between any two servers (office 1 > and office 2).
Just an idea, but it seems to me that a simple way to get some of the benefits of R/W replication would be the idea of a cache-manager-proxy. If a local AFS server had the capability of caching on behalf of a client, or pre-caching, you'd have the data local still, but it wouldn't have to be in the cache on the client. Now, this doesn't help you in the case of a network outage, but performance for reads would help. Think of a new volume type "CP" that basically tells the server "get a complete copy of this volume, and maintain callbacks to it's entire contents". The volume would be added like a backup or replicate. Dunno how any of this would interact with Disconnected Operation, but just thought I'd throw it out. -- Nathan ------------------------------------------------------------ Nathan Neulinger EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Missouri - Rolla Phone: (573) 341-4841 Computing Services Fax: (573) 341-4216 _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-devel
