Brian Candler wrote:
Well, maybe there is something useful that can be salvaged :-)
maybe, maybe not.
(3) Further to the above: some form of shared filesystem where the remote copy can be mounted read-write and changes propagate both ways. This can land you into problems when conflicting off-line updates are made by both sides.
conflict resolution is the fundamental problem in any sort of async multi-master replication system. if you can't find an answer for conflict resolution (and it's a damned hard problem), you don't have an answer for multi-master. richard

