Fault tolerance and cross client compatibility

[Greg Whalin]

Mathias Herberts wrote:
> On 4/12/05, Greg Whalin <gwhalin at meetup.com> wrote:
> 
>>This is a bug in the java client and a nice catch.  I have fixed the
>>code in head release of repository to have fix to match perl way of
>>doing things.  Not tested, but should work.
> 
> 
> Great,
> 
> I forgot to mention the number of tries was different too (20 in the
> Perl client, the number of buckets in Java), but this is not per se a
> compatibility issue.
> 
> Mathias.

That I don't see changing to match the perl client.  If my entire 
cluster is down, might as well fail out earlier to grab data from my 
datastore.  Perhaps I could make the # of tries user set and default to 
# of buckets?

Greg