On 15/09/09 17:15, Chris Simmonds wrote: > Hi, > > I have a situation where I need to keep data on several PCs on a LAN in > sync. Any PC may update the data, with suitable locking, which must be > pushed out to all the others. It must be possible for a PC to go down > and be brought back on line again without impacting the others. The > amount of data is not large - say a few thousand items - and the > population of PCs is also modest - maybe 50 of them. All will be running > some version of Red Hat Linux. > > Has anyone worked on something along these lines? > > One option I have considered is using, say, MySQL with one master node > replicating to all the others and some mechanism to elect a new master > if the original went down. But, that sounds messy. There must be a > neater solution? > > Bye for now, > Chris. > I don't know the type of data you are talking about but have you had a look at Git (Linus Torvalds's versioning software)
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