Hi, John Else, Thomas Sanders and I spent a couple of days hacking up a prototype xapi[1] which uses Irmin[2] to store host and VM configuration in git. It seems very promising to me: I particularly like the way I can associate threads (Tasks in xapi-speak) with Irmin views (mapped onto git topic branches) which remain isolated while running (avoiding scalability and correctness problems I currently have due to accidental *lack* of isolation) and which get merged on completion.
If anyone’s interested I’ve written up a basic design doc here: https://github.com/xapi-project/xen-api/blob/master/doc/futures/distributed-database/README.md Cheers, Dave [1] https://github.com/xapi-project/xapi [2] https://github.com/mirage/irmin _______________________________________________ Xen-api mailing list Xen-api@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xen-api
