Re: [user] Re: Questions about couchDB algorithms

[Alessio Pace <al...@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Wout Mertens <wm...@cisco.com> wrote:

> On Feb 4, 2009, at 3:18 PM, Alessio Pace wrote:
>
>  I mean: how does it deal with dynamic networks, where nodes join and
>> leave,
>> and you have to know onto which you can push/pull ? I am obviously talking
>> about cases in which you can't list the a priori list of few cluster
>> machines on text file and copy it on all the machines.
>>
>
> There is nothing like that in place already. There is only the replication
> mechanism and you're responsible for starting it, in both directions if
> needed, tunneling the HTTP if needed, keeping track of the nodes in the
> setup etc.
>
> CouchDB just makes sure that you can replicate no matter what happened
> between replication runs.


Ok, thanks a lot for this explanation.

--
Alessio Pace.


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> Wout.
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