On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Randall Leeds <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not entirely happy with this patch and I'd like some help figuring > out what to do about it. > > I foresee problems when database files are copied or backed up on > disk. It's possible to end up with two couchdb instances hosting > databases with the same uuid. The problem is that the uuid is no > longer meaningful, as it doesn't do what it was intended to (uniquely > identify the database). > > Can anyone see a way around this? >
I think we don't mind this. As I mentioned above, when we see that 2 db files have the same uuid we can do a fast-forward replication by starting from the lower of the 2 dbs sequence #s for replication. (maybe... Adam, does this sound sane?) -- Chris Anderson http://jchrisa.net http://couch.io
