Re: Joe Touch: Re: Taxonomy draft - web replication problems

From: Wojtek Sylwestrzak (W.Sylwestrzak@icm.edu.pl)
Date: Sun Aug 22 1999 - 05:40:09 MDT


Joe Touch wrote:
[...]
>
> I see the difference as a combination of all three factors
> - ahead of time
> - entire database
> - permanent copy (source invalidated, vs. timeout in a cache)

and perhaps:

        - single origin server of a mirror (vs. multiple for a cache),

if it adds something to the picture. but this is perhaps just a
rewording
of the 'entire database' criterium: a mirror keeps more or less a
one-to-one
complete copy, while a cache can have many chunks of many origins.

(however, an exception here would be a reverse proxy)

--w



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