Re: Delay syncing to mirror repositories causing issues

On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 10:06:39AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> I can see how you might do a quorum based locking scheme there to
> make things reliable in the case of a partitioned network with
> multiple replicas, but what can it do to improve the time it takes
> for a certain amount of new/uncached data to make it to the other
> side of a slow network? Don't the rules of physics still apply?

I believe with WD clients using a slave server can access data while it is
being copied to the slave because read-requests for data that isn't yet
available on the slave are proxied to the master.

This is something Subversion's write-through proxy could do, too.
But it doesn't right now. All read-requests are answered by the slave
and they fail if requested data isn't available yet.
Received on 2011-08-15 17:35:39 CEST