On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 5:20 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@ovn.org> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 05:10:15PM +0100, Ivan Kelly wrote: >> > Just to make sure, does this means that a Zookeeper client cannot read a >> > consistent snapshot of the entire database? >> Yes, exactly. It can only read one node at a time, so writes can occur >> between the reading of two nodes. > > OK. That's a major downside for this use case, because the OVN clients > are accustomed to viewing a consistent snapshot of the database. Well, if you do the log tailing thing I suggested, then the client will have access to a consistent snapshot, since they would only read from the database directly once, and all client updates after that would come from the log which arrive in a well defined order.
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