[Swift-devel] Re: scheduling

[Ben Clifford]

there was (and I think still is) a bluriness about what swift's data 
replication handling should be.

for example, should it be for swift to keep track of where it has placed 
data on sites? (Here is "mydata.txt" locally- process it and put the 
result back locally and if you happen to do some persistent replication 
that you cna use later, fine)

should it be for arbitrary actors (perhaps swift, perhaps other people) 
placing replicas of data in arbitrary locations on the network, not 
necessarily attached to 'sites' (in the sites.xml sense): (my data is 
stored at http://a.com/repo/foo.txt and also at 
http://b.com/guests/monkey/tree - I don't mind which you pull to an 
execution site as I am asserting that they are equal).

Those cases are similar but different and somehow I get the feeling that 
there is not a clearly defined consensus.

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