Hi, It's useful to document these limitations, but of course, they don't necessarily rule out rxosd mirroring having utility for some application. Also, I had the impression rxosd was undergoing development.
Matt ----- "Simon Wilkinson" <s...@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote: > On 11 Apr 2011, at 17:13, Matt W. Benjamin wrote: > > > The variant of OpenAFS called rxosd has write mirroring, too, I > believe > > One of the discoveries of the Edinburgh Hackathon was that whilst > rxosd has mirroring, it doesn't have any mechanism for keeping the > mirrors in sync. This means that if a single OSD goes offline from a > mirror, when it comes back up you have data consistency problems. As > there is no data version stored on the OSDs, recovering from this is > hard, as you don't know which OSDs have the 'correct' data, and which > have out-of-date data. > > Cheers, > > Simon. > > _______________________________________________ > OpenAFS-info mailing list > OpenAFS-info@openafs.org > https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info -- Matt Benjamin The Linux Box 206 South Fifth Ave. Suite 150 Ann Arbor, MI 48104 http://linuxbox.com tel. 734-761-4689 fax. 734-769-8938 cel. 734-216-5309 _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
