consync: updated class docs

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gholt 2011-06-29 20:49:19 +00:00
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@ -78,10 +78,10 @@ class ContainerSync(Daemon):
.. note::
This does not sync standard object POSTs, as those do not cause
container row updates. A workaround is to do X-Copy-From POSTs. We're
considering solutions to this limitation but leaving it as is for now
since POSTs are fairly uncommon.
Container sync will sync object POSTs only if the proxy server is set
to use "object_post_as_copy = true" which is the default. So-called
fast object posts, "object_post_as_copy = false" do not update the
container listings and therefore can't be detected for synchronization.
The actual syncing is slightly more complicated to make use of the three
(or number-of-replicas) main nodes for a container without each trying to