On 4 October 2012 23:47, Steve Koppelman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 3:52 PM, stephen bartell <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> 1. Is there harm in this sort of cluster to have all members to pull >> >> from one another, i.e., all of >> >> A->B >> >> A->C >> >> B->A >> >> B->C >> >> C ->A >> > >> > Multimaster Meshed Magic :-) >> >> … only if _id's are unique. >> AFAIK, you need to address conflict resolution if _ids are similar. >> > > Good point there, since some of the databases have app-generated _ids, > which is fine on a single master, not necessarily so fine when moving to a > setup with distributed writes.
Then add something like the first 5 chars of md5 of the hostname or similar. Or use bigcouch. A+ Dave
