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Alastair, On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 08:13:48PM +0100, Alastair Johnson wrote: > Based on a combination of the manual at > http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/doc/html/manual-10.html#ss10.6 and the wiki unfortunately, the information present in that document is greatly obsoleted, it reflects the situation before realms support in Coda. I don't think there is any reason to use readonly replication now. ---------------------------------- ... availability of volumes which cannot be read-write replicated. The most important example of such a volume is the root of the Coda file system ---------------------------------- Nowadays there is no "root of the Coda file system", it is imitated separately on each client. The root volume of a _realm_ can be safely replicated, though of course you should avoid [conflicting] updates on that volume. In the unlikely (given a reasonable administration) event of such a conflict you can repair the volume as well as any other one, I think. In fact, you could replace and repair the root volume even before realms, with additional manual work. I can not tell whether your procedure is right, but I think the whole idea behind readonly replication is an artifact of AFS2 and not adequate for Coda. My 2c -- IvanReceived on 2005-06-30 20:33:39