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DFS SLOW ON SWITCHING SERVERS

Hey...ok so i have dfs running in 2008 domain...one namespace and 3 target servers...
Servers called A-B-C...Users use Server A,when that goes down they go to B and when that goes down they go to C...So as a test i shutdown Server A....Complaints of users....

1) when they switch over to Server B...some files where lost or outdated...i am assuming some files didnt get replicated from A to B fast enough...or at all....
2) connection times where real slow...so connecting to the namespace was very slow...like 1-2 minutes...

does anyone have any clue as to why this would happen and how to fix??
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Sounds like expected behavior to me. DFS is designed to provide a server-agnostic view of the file system through namespaces and solve some remote office pain points with replication. What you describe is more of a disaster recovery scenario, which was not the intended use for DFS. The feature set isn't really designed or meant for rapid failover. Windows has a completely unrelated feature set for those scenarios, and to really solve what you want, you'd be better served setting up a file server cluster.
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