[Swift-devel] Re: replication vs site score

[Mihael Hategan]

On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 15:49 +0000, Ben Clifford wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Apr 2009, Mihael Hategan wrote:
> 
> > Except when using pre-allocated resources, you are still waiting for
> > them, but the waiting is not automated.
> 
> Also you have chosen to not attempt to opportunistically get any more once 
> you have decided you have waited enough.
> 

Right. Overall it leads to inefficiencies and wasted cpu-hours, but it
gives you a known set of resources, which is valuable. I think the known
set of resources part can be achieved anyway if there was that
back-channel mentioned in random chatter that informed swift about the
nodes available.