Please forgive and correct any misused terminology here - I'm new to DFS and trying my best to understand it all!
I have two servers, one at each of my two sites. Both of these servers are set up to host (terminology?) a domain DFS namespace. There is no specific DFS Replication set up to copy files between the physical folders, however if I create a file on one server, it appears instantly on the other so I have assumed from this (I can't find it written in plain English ANYWHERE) that files and folders in DFS namespaces replicate automatically without having to be set up as a replication group (please correct me if I am wrong about this as I will need to find out what is copying the files if it is not DFS).
I am looking into disaster recovery/failover of some of our applications and I'm considering a scenario where disaster recovery has been implemented and our secondary application server is being used. The secondary server produces an export file on a schedule and saves it to the DFS namespace. However, the primary server is still up and running although inaccessable by users, and also creates the export file and saves it to the DFS namespace. Presuming the two servers clocks are are synchronized to the second it is conceivable that these two files are created at exactly the same time. How does conflict resolution work in this instance? I have been able to find out that DFS-R will take the most recently modified file and move the other to the ConflictAndDeleted folder, but because DFS-R is not being used there is no ConflictAndDeleted folder to look at. Again, I assume that it will just use the most recently modified file and that it can be millisecond accurate, but to have this confirmed one way or another would be really helpful.