Rajat - I don't understand what you're proposing here. Are all entities 
contending for the same lock? It's not possible to have multiple locks under 1 
ZNode. The lock recipes that Curator (or any ZK app) uses requires a unique 
path for each lock. In any event, If it's all the same lock that each entity is 
contending for then it's fine - that would be the standard lock recipe. Maybe 
I'm missing something?

-Jordan

> On Feb 5, 2020, at 1:21 AM, Rajat Gangwar <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Jordan,
> 
> Planning to have 1 persistent node for the application, say
> "/entity_locks/". And then all entities will be trying to create ephemeral
> nodes under this parent node.
> 
> We will be creating 100 million unique entities in a given day. So each
> unique entity will try to take the lock before persisting to data-store. So
> if ZK will fail to create ephemeral node if it already exists under same
> parent node, then we can go with this simple implementation.
> 
> Unless there are some corner cases where this might not work ?
> 
> Thanks,
> Rajat
> 
> On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 8:28 PM Jordan Zimmerman <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
>>> can I implement a lock recipe which just
>>> tries to create ephemeral node without any persistent nodes.
>> 
>> Ephemeral nodes cannot have any children. Unless you create your lock at
>> the root ("/") you'd need some parent persistent node. Is this a big
>> problem for you? Unless you have 1000s of unique lock paths there shouldn't
>> be any problem with persistent parent node.
>> 
>> -Jordan

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