Deployment

Each Syndicate user gets one or more user gateways in order to access volumes. A volume owner may opt to deploy one or more replica gateways to store users’ writes. In addition, a volume owner may deploy one or more acquisition gateways to expose datasets to users in a read-only fashion.

A volume may have at most one acquisition gateway. This is by design, so acquisition gateway driver developers do not need to reason about write-conflicts. In addition, a volume can only have an acquisition gateway if it is an “archive”-type volume. This means that only the acquisition gateway may be a writer in this volume.

The reasoning here is that each dataset will belong to its own volume, and that user-written data will be kept separately from datasets.