On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 10:06:39AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > I can see how you might do a quorum based locking scheme there to > make things reliable in the case of a partitioned network with > multiple replicas, but what can it do to improve the time it takes > for a certain amount of new/uncached data to make it to the other > side of a slow network? Don't the rules of physics still apply?
I believe with WD clients using a slave server can access data while it is being copied to the slave because read-requests for data that isn't yet available on the slave are proxied to the master. This is something Subversion's write-through proxy could do, too. But it doesn't right now. All read-requests are answered by the slave and they fail if requested data isn't available yet.
