Vishal (Kathuria) would you mind posting your ZK presentation? Perhaps here as wiki attachment: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ZOOKEEPER/ZooKeeperPresentations with a reference from minutes?
thanks, Patrick On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 8:56 AM, Benjamin Reed <br...@apache.org> wrote: >> I don't know your approach to cluster reconfiguration, but I had a thought >> about it lately that may be rather trivial, if I didn't oversee anything. >> Cluster reconfiguration would need to be an operation that goes through the >> leader and gets acknowledged by a quorum. All operations following the >> cluster >> reconfiguration operation would need to be committed by the new quorum. >> >> I hope this idea might help and I didn't make a fool of myself. :-) >> >> Best regards, >> >> Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro >> > > it would be nice if things were that simple. your idea only works if > no failures happen. (lots of things are simple if no failure happens. > code paths become nice and clean.) since we would like to deal with > failures, things are a bit more complicated. at the heart of it is a > reconfiguration request that gets committed using Zab. > > ben >
