Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-couchdb-user-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 55072 invoked from network); 4 Feb 2009 14:30:47 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.2) by minotaur.apache.org with SMTP; 4 Feb 2009 14:30:47 -0000 Received: (qmail 50031 invoked by uid 500); 4 Feb 2009 14:30:45 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-couchdb-user-archive@couchdb.apache.org Received: (qmail 49801 invoked by uid 500); 4 Feb 2009 14:30:44 -0000 Mailing-List: contact user-help@couchdb.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: user@couchdb.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list user@couchdb.apache.org Received: (qmail 49790 invoked by uid 99); 4 Feb 2009 14:30:44 -0000 Received: from athena.apache.org (HELO athena.apache.org) (140.211.11.136) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 06:30:44 -0800 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.0 required=10.0 tests=SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (athena.apache.org: domain of wmertens@cisco.com designates 144.254.15.119 as permitted sender) Received: from [144.254.15.119] (HELO av-tac-bru.cisco.com) (144.254.15.119) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:30:35 +0000 X-TACSUNS: Virus Scanned Received: from strange-brew.cisco.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by av-tac-bru.cisco.com (8.11.7p3+Sun/8.11.7) with ESMTP id n14EU4r23080 for ; Wed, 4 Feb 2009 15:30:04 +0100 (CET) Received: from dhcp-peg3-cl31144-254-5-151.cisco.com (dhcp-peg3-cl31144-254-5-151.cisco.com [144.254.5.151]) by strange-brew.cisco.com (8.11.7p3+Sun/8.11.7) with ESMTP id n14EU3t14733 for ; Wed, 4 Feb 2009 15:30:03 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: From: Wout Mertens To: user@couchdb.apache.org In-Reply-To: <84987d20902040618r59d5d497ifb5c66c1909034e6@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v930.3) Subject: Re: [user] Re: Questions about couchDB algorithms Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 15:30:03 +0100 References: <84987d20902040149v1f975975n3d62a6b62ca25441@mail.gmail.com> <84987d20902040618r59d5d497ifb5c66c1909034e6@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.930.3) X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org On Feb 4, 2009, at 3:18 PM, Alessio Pace wrote: > I mean: how does it deal with dynamic networks, where nodes join and > leave, > and you have to know onto which you can push/pull ? I am obviously > talking > about cases in which you can't list the a priori list of few cluster > machines on text file and copy it on all the machines. There is nothing like that in place already. There is only the replication mechanism and you're responsible for starting it, in both directions if needed, tunneling the HTTP if needed, keeping track of the nodes in the setup etc. CouchDB just makes sure that you can replicate no matter what happened between replication runs. Wout.