[Swift-devel] Re: replication vs site score

[Ioan Raicu]

Mihael Hategan wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 10:32 -0700, Ioan Raicu wrote:
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>>  If not, then I'd say that dynamic resource provisioning has to be
>> kept at jobs of a single node level,
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> That does not follow. The mutually-exclusive choices you are presenting
> are 1) no current support for block allocations, 2) single node
> allocations and you're missing 3) future support for block allocations.
> If (1) is false (2) is not the only alternative.
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Remember, I said "if not", in other words, if Coaster does not support 
this today, then (2) is your only alternative, unless you want to waste 
many resources over time. Future support, obviously means that (2) will 
not be the only alternative :)


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