On 01/20/2012 05:08 PM, Caitlin Bestler wrote: > If you aren’t forcing a Get to reference all servers, using the option > Stephen mentioned, then you MAY get an > old version before the replication process is complete. That is what is > meant by “eventual consistency”.
Well, but apparently this may also happen *with* the X-Newest option. > If you’re trying to do a distributed database a Cloud Storage API might > not be the best solution for you. But > > Most applications will deal with a slight amount of uncertainty very > well. Your application had to work even if > > you fetched an object a millisecond **before** someone else updated it, > right? How important can it be that > > you not get the old version a millisecond **after** it was updated? No, a millisecond delay would not be a problem. But since I don't know what what sort of swift setup my application will have to deal with, I'd rather assume only what's truly 100% certain. Best, -Nikolaus -- »Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a Banana.« PGP fingerprint: 5B93 61F8 4EA2 E279 ABF6 02CF A9AD B7F8 AE4E 425C _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp