Re: replica write-through

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@stanford.edu>]

--On Saturday, September 16, 2006 6:53 PM -0400 matthew sporleder 
<msporleder@gmail.com> wrote:

> I was wondering if clever use of syncrepl could be used to simulate
> replica-write-through.  To explain- a client could send a write to a
> replica, who would accept the write and send it through to the master
> who would know to update the rest of the comsumers (the original
> consumer already accepted the write, so it knows that it's in sync).

There are ways to do something close to this, where the replica forwards 
the write to the master (rather than returning a referral), and then all 
the replicas get sync'd by the master.

--Quanah

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Stanford University
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