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-94-215