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On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, Jan Harkes wrote: > createvol_rep testvol verdi/vicepa mozart:9999/foo marais > > which would create replicas on the codasrv on verdi in partition > /vicepa, on a server running on mozart (at port 9999) in partition foo, > and on marais on the default partition. Yeah! > But that's just dreaming right now... :-( > Oh, and because we have client > triggered resolution removing a replica might lead to dataloss. I can buy it even with dataloss! Just let the purge script ask: - Have you done ls -lR on this volume?... :-) > everyone would probably try it at least once. Sure - but anyway it would be nice to have. > > Is the volume storage groups database really necessary, even internally? > > Internally it is definitely necessary, a server needs to know whether an > update made it to all replicas given the COP2 message. It cannot trust Ok, but then they can be constructed dynamically, without a need for any administration, right? Let our dreams come true. May be not today but some day! :) Regards, -- IvanReceived on 2002-10-06 16:49:39