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.

Jan