memcached replication

[Dustin Sallings]

On Sep 5, 2007, at 8:41 , hirose31 at t3.rim.or.jp wrote:

>   replication sequence:
>     1. client requests SET command to master
>     2. master stores to own area.
>     3. master send key/vaue to slave by memcached protocol
>     4. master do not wait receiving "STORED" from slave (asynchronous)
>     5. master return "STORED" to client
>
> There is no get-back-old-data problem, even if master goes down during
> between step of 2 and 4. because client does not receive "STORED"
> response from master, so client will retry after a while.

	If you could add a sync delete before sending the value to the  
slave, then you'd never have consistency problems.

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Dustin Sallings