Re: Receiving create events for self with synchronous create

2010-09-13 Thread Mahadev Konar
Hi Todd, Sorry for my late response. I had marked this email to respond but couldn't find the time :). Did you figure this out? It mostly looks like that as soon as you set a watch on /follower, some other node instantly creates another child of /follower? Could that be the case? Thanks

Re: Lock example

2010-09-13 Thread Mahadev Konar
Hi Tim, The lock recipe you mention is supposed to avoid her affect and prevent starvation (though it has bugs :)). Are you looking for something like that or just a simple lock and unlock that doesn't have to worry abt the above issues. If that's the case then just doing an ephemeral create

Re: Understanding ZooKeeper data file management and LogFormatter

2010-09-13 Thread Mahadev Konar
Hi Vishal, Usually the default retention policy is safe enough for operations. http://hadoop.apache.org/zookeeper/docs/r3.1.1/zookeeperAdmin.html Gives you an overview of how to use the purging library in zookeeper. Thanks mahadev On 9/8/10 12:01 PM, Vishal K vishalm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi