Re: Comments on replication consistency models

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:
> > We can guarantee "read your writes" consistency with the help of a tweaked chaining overlay. I.e.,
> > 1) the client issues a write request to a slave
> > 2) the slave chains the request to the master
> > 3) when the chained write succeeds, the slave performs the write locally
> > 4) the response is returned to the client

> Another approach is to simply chain reads of any updater.
> This approach suffers from disconnect issues (unless the
> service has a long memory).

Ah, yes... We could simply maintain a queue of recent updates. Accesses 
to any entry whose DN is in the queue get chained back to the master. 
Once the corresponding update is received from the master the DN can be 
dropped from the queue. Of course chaining reads would place additional 
load on the master.

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