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radha krishna wrote: > > On Sat, 5 Jun 1999, _Oliver,.Thuns: wrote: > > > >It also supports replicated servers, which are > > >aimed at providing higher availability to clients. > > > > You could also replicate servers with AFS, but only read-only (and one > > read-write). Could coda provide replicated servers with write access? > > yes, u could. coda assumes that write-write conflicts are rare(mostly > true) and proceeds, in case there are conflicts u will have to manually > resolve the confilcts. > Some conflicts are even automatically resolved (especially those involving directory entries). Kumar's PhD thesis [1] in particular addresses how to handle conflicts due of replicated read/write servers. The thesis is also downloadable from the coda web site. (www.coda.cs.cmu.edu, click "research", then documents for "coda", and then look it up in the section "PhD theses") -- Clement [1] Kumar, P. Mitgating the Effects of Optimistic Replication in a Distributed File System, PhD Thesis, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University Dec. 1994, CMU-CS-94-215Received on 1999-06-05 11:56:38