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From: William Josephson <jkw@eecs.harvard.edu>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] multiple venti servers
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 12:02:49 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060830160249.GA6145@mero.morphisms.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dac0a5820608300901g4e1a0d12sb1ce0737747243f1@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 09:01:00AM -0700, Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan wrote:
> If I am right, one problem with this approach is it becomes tricky
> when both venti servers have updates but yet to be sync'ed. And, in
> particular, when there are identical data backed up (say, I downloaded
> a CD image in two machines and backed up in these two servers), it
> leaves two copies. It may be safe but it does leave two copies.

Writes presumably only go to the master.


  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-30 16:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-29 20:46 John Floren
2006-08-30  4:37 ` Russ Cox
2006-08-30  5:13   ` geoff
2006-08-30 13:42     ` Wes Kussmaul
2006-08-30 15:02       ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2006-08-30 16:01         ` Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
2006-08-30 16:02           ` William Josephson [this message]
2006-08-30 16:12             ` LiteStar numnums
2006-08-30 18:23             ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2006-08-30 21:51               ` Robert Raschke
2006-08-30 20:27           ` Russ Cox
2006-09-01  6:40             ` Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
2006-09-01 17:55               ` Russ Cox
2006-09-03 12:53                 ` Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan

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