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Thanks Ivan and Jan for the replies. I will add this to the errata on the Wiki. Al On Friday 01 July 2005 01:32, Ivan Popov wrote: > 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 2005-07-06 10:34:08