Re: Kernel SCM saga..

[Florian Weimer]

* Jon Smirl:

> On Apr 8, 2005 2:14 PM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>    How do you replicate your database incrementally? I've given you enough
>>    clues to do it for "git" in probably five lines of perl.
>
> Efficient database replication is achieved by copying the transaction
> logs and then replaying them.

Works only if the databases are in sync.  Even if the transaction logs
are pretty high-level, you risk violating constraints specified by the
application.  General multi-master replication is an unsolved problem.
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