memcached replication

[Dustin Sallings]

On Sep 4, 2007, at 21:35, hirose31 at t3.rim.or.jp wrote:

>   - asynchronous repliacation. (like MySQL)
>   - single master, single slave.
>   - slave connect to master.
>   - sequence:
>     - client requests SET command to master
>     - push key to queue
>     - pop key from queue (asynchronous)
>     - fetch value for key
>     - send key/value to slave by memcached protocol
>   - when new slave connect to master, master copy whole data to slave.

	Doesn't this mean that you will sometimes write a value to a cache,  
and then later read a value back and get something other than the  
latest value you wrote?  Getting known stale values seems worse than  
not getting something from the cache.

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Dustin Sallings