Thanks for the suggestion Patrick, I posted it as an attachment to the wiki for the Zookeeper meet and included the link in the minutes.
Here is the link too https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/download/attachments/26805288/Hadoop+Zookeeper+Summit.pptx -----Original Message----- From: Patrick Hunt [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 10:31 AM To: [email protected]; Vishal Kathuria Subject: Re: dev meeting minutes Vishal (Kathuria) would you mind posting your ZK presentation? Perhaps here as wiki attachment: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ZOOKEEPER/ZooKeeperPresentations with a reference from minutes? thanks, Patrick On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 8:56 AM, Benjamin Reed <[email protected]> wrote: >> I don't know your approach to cluster reconfiguration, but I had a >> thought about it lately that may be rather trivial, if I didn't oversee >> anything. >> Cluster reconfiguration would need to be an operation that goes >> through the leader and gets acknowledged by a quorum. All operations >> following the cluster reconfiguration operation would need to be committed >> by the new quorum. >> >> I hope this idea might help and I didn't make a fool of myself. :-) >> >> Best regards, >> >> Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro >> > > it would be nice if things were that simple. your idea only works if > no failures happen. (lots of things are simple if no failure happens. > code paths become nice and clean.) since we would like to deal with > failures, things are a bit more complicated. at the heart of it is a > reconfiguration request that gets committed using Zab. > > ben >
