On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:44:29 -0600 Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com> wrote:
JE> 2010/2/23 Ted Zlatanov <t...@lifelogs.com>: JE> because in a masterless environment there is no way to tell "when it's over" >> >> Would it work to use an external agent? It can get the list of nodes, >> make them all read-only, then wait until every node reports no write >> activity through JMX. JE> At that point I'd say you're deeply into "cure worse than the disease" JE> territory :) You're probably right, though I don't see a better way and don't understand what makes this one problematic. I thought it would at least let the cluster keep serving read requests while settling into a steady state. Ted