Distributed Network Syncing

Ivan Krstic krstic at fas.harvard.edu
Mon Aug 8 14:21:19 PDT 2005


Jesse Brede wrote:
> My question is:  How does memcache sync data entries in a distributed
> network?  

It doesn't. It's not a database.

> Is there something that I need to do to resync the servers
>  correctly when one has gone down.

The servers don't sync - the client decides, based on hashing, on which
server to store a particular key/value pair.

-IK


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