Re: Parent nodes multi-step transactions

2010-08-23 Thread Gustavo Niemeyer
So, we end up with something like this:    A/B    A/C/D-0    A/C/D-1 While people are thinking, let me ask this more explicitly: how hard would it be to add multi-step atomic actions to Zookeeper? The interest is specifically to: 1) Avoid intermediate states to be persisted when the client

Re: Parent nodes multi-step transactions

2010-08-23 Thread Mahadev Konar
Hi Gustavo, There was some talk of startTransaction(), addTransaction(), commit() kind of api on the list. Here is the link: http://www.mail-archive.com/zookeeper-dev@hadoop.apache.org/msg08317.html Mostly looked like this wasn¹t on our roadmap for short term, but definitely something to

Re: Parent nodes multi-step transactions

2010-08-23 Thread Gustavo Niemeyer
http://www.mail-archive.com/zookeeper-dev@hadoop.apache.org/msg08317.html Mostly looked like this wasn¹t on our roadmap for short term, but definitely something to think about longer term. Nice, thanks for the pointer. This looks precisely like the kind of support we'd like to see