If X is a number of entries in DefunctWorkers, shouldnât it return error in case of R + W - X <= N ?
ermouth 2015-10-07 23:35 GMT+03:00 Robert Newson <[email protected]>: > Yes, I think it should. We should return the best answer we can. > > > On 7 Oct 2015, at 13:48, Robert Kowalski <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I am currently taking a look at fabric and rexi. > > > > Given I open a doc, a CouchDB cluster returns the document. > > > > It also returns a doc, given not all replicas (r) are available and the > > *cluster is aware of it*: if the co-ordinator knows that there are fewer > > than r replicas available, it returns the document with a 200. > > > > > > When a worker is not available *right now*, and the call to one of them > > just times out (so the cluster is not aware that one node is > unavailable), > > the Cluster will return a general timeout error instead of a result [1], > > even if just one of the worker fails. > > > > Should the cluster return a result instead in those cases? > > > > > > [1] > > > https://github.com/apache/couchdb-fabric/blob/405922c5dff36e0f5822e9a3422243f217d8d0e4/src/fabric_doc_open.erl#L61 >
