Replication

[Brandon Barkley]

Cool, that makes sense. I assume it does the same if a device is marked 
dead.

By the way, is there any sort of automatic detection for a dead device 
or is that the job of another program?

Mark Smith wrote:
>> I noticed the default mindevcount is 2. I think this is the value we 
>> want to use in production, but if I create a key in this class, but 
>> there is only one storage server configured, what happens? Will it 
>> complain in any way? Will it create the second copy whenever the second 
>> storage server comes online?
>>     
>
> Default is 2, but you can up it, of course.
>
> The system will sit there and try to replicate the files until a new
> storage node becomes available.  At that point, every file still waiting
> for replication will be copied to the new host.
>
> It shouldn't complain, but the replicator may do a lot of busywork for
> no good reason.
>
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