Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262928AbVDHS6J (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Apr 2005 14:58:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262926AbVDHS6J (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Apr 2005 14:58:09 -0400 Received: from mail.enyo.de ([212.9.189.167]:16569 "EHLO mail.enyo.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262923AbVDHS6G (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Apr 2005 14:58:06 -0400 From: Florian Weimer To: Jon Smirl Cc: Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Kernel SCM saga.. References: <20050408041341.GA8720@taniwha.stupidest.org> <20050408071428.GB3957@opteron.random> <4256AE0D.201@tiscali.de> <4256BE7D.5040308@tiscali.de> <9e473391050408112865ed5d17@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 20:58:02 +0200 In-Reply-To: <9e473391050408112865ed5d17@mail.gmail.com> (Jon Smirl's message of "Fri, 8 Apr 2005 14:28:59 -0400") Message-ID: <87u0mh5c5h.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 787 Lines: 17 * Jon Smirl: > On Apr 8, 2005 2:14 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> How do you replicate your database incrementally? I've given you enough >> clues to do it for "git" in probably five lines of perl. > > Efficient database replication is achieved by copying the transaction > logs and then replaying them. Works only if the databases are in sync. Even if the transaction logs are pretty high-level, you risk violating constraints specified by the application. General multi-master replication is an unsolved problem. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/