On Dec 12, 2011, at 10:26 PM, Paul Davis wrote: >> * Merkle trees are great for two-way synchronization, but it's not >> immediately clear to me how you'd use them to bootstrap a single source -> >> target replication. I might just be missing a straightforward extension of >> the tech here. > > This is the point that's important with checksums and so on. Merkle > trees are great when you want to mirror structured data but CouchDB > replication is a mirror operation. Think, N db's replicating to a > central DB. you have a mixture of things which breaks checksums (or at > least any obvious application I can think of given our internal > structures)
You're missing a rather important s/is/isn't/ there ;-) But yeah, I agree.
