Re: [OpenAFS] Read-only replication

2010-06-17 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag 17 Juni 2010, 01:06:34 schrieb Jaap Winius: > This subject is confusing to me, because I've learned that once a > client has encountered a read-write mount point, it becomes biased > towards accessing only read-write replicas beyond it, ignoring any and > all perfectly usable r

Re: [ SPAM? ] [OpenAFS] Read-only replication

2010-06-17 Thread Jaap Winius
Quoting Lars Schimmer : Simple - Load Balancing. Imagine a cell at three countries hold together by small ISDN lines - a RO copy local to each faculty and the have fast access. Yes, but "In an organization where it is only necessary for an administrator to either give users read-write access

Re: [ SPAM? ] [OpenAFS] Read-only replication

2010-06-17 Thread Lars Schimmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jaap Winius wrote: > Hi folks, > > Here's a hypothetical question regarding the replication of AFS volumes: > > In an organization where it is only necessary for an administrator to > either give users read-write access to volumes, or no access at al

[OpenAFS] Read-only replication

2010-06-16 Thread Jaap Winius
Hi folks, Here's a hypothetical question regarding the replication of AFS volumes: In an organization where it is only necessary for an administrator to either give users read-write access to volumes, or no access at all, what would be the advantage of creating any read-only replicas, beyond