Re: ETCP Project

[Greg Lindahl <lindahl@conservativecomputer.com>]

On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 05:58:27PM -0800, David Brower wrote:

> The big problem case to work out is:  processes on each node
> writing to the end of a log file.  You must get all lines from all processes
> in correct time order, without losing anything.  This is a highly contended
> block
> with concurrent writes, followed by file extension.

I'm afraid you've mistaken what I suggested for something which allows
concurrent access. It doesn't. One server is active, the other is
passive. It's exactly the same as drbd, only one level higher in the
OS: VFS layer instead of block device layer.

-- g


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