Hi Howard,
> Is there a doc somewhere that describes the replication protocol?
I don't think so. At the moment we just serialise Java objects and send
them over the wire. We plan to add other protocols in the future.
> Another issue to consider when bringing up a new replica - you may
> want to disallow all queries completely, until the replica has
> fully sync'd up. If you allow searches during this initial phase,
> a client is likely to get a partial set of results. In some cases,
> that may be worse than getting no result...
I think that since we allow modifications on multiple replicas
simultaneously we can get that situation at any point anyway.
Martin
