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On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 11:03:49AM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: > Ivan Popov wrote: > >Full file caching is a fundamental design choice. The unique properties > >of Coda are due to that design. Use another file system if huge files > >are important - but then forget disconnected operation and optimistic > >replication. > > What's Optimistic Replication? I wouldn't call it optimistic replication, but I guess Ivan was referring to the fact that Coda allows a write operation to succeed when less than (N/2)+1 replicas of a volume are available. JanReceived on 2004-05-03 15:36:22