DFS-R 2012 file access in asynchronous replication

Question

Here is my scenario: Asynchronous replication is set with long period like 2 days in 2 nodes DFS-R. Considering load balancing, client A accessing files on DFS will be redirected to node A while client B will be redirected to node B. There is a text file
called "test.txt" with date 2014-1-1 on the DFS shared folder, After client A modify "test.txt" with date 2014-2-2 in node A, and the replication doesn't run yet, client B want to read the file test.txt, in which version the file will be
read by client B?

Answer 1

Hi,
When a client accesses a namespace root or folder with targets, the client attempts to access the first target in the referral ordering list. If the target is not available, the client attempts to access the next target.
Even though the latest test.txt is located on node A, the client B still access the test.txt that located on node B.
The latest test.txt will be replicated to node B when the dfs replication runs again.
Best Regards,
Mandy 
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