Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
--On Friday, March 05, 2004 21:49:18 +0100 Lars Ellenberg <Lars.Ellenberg at linbit.com> wrote: [ Re: database consistency ] > As long as you use protocol "C", this is NOT true. > > If some user (file system, database, any program) wants to > complete a "transaction", it should make sure that whatever was > modified is on stable storage. > To do so typically (f)sync is used. > With protocol "C" in connected mode, this completes only > *after* sync completed on *both*, active AND passive node. As I understand it, protocol "B" should also be OK, as long as the secondary doesn't reboot at the same time, and may improve performance over protocol "C". -- Carson