[tahoe-dev] split brain? how handled in tahoe -- docs?

erpo41 at gmail.com erpo41 at gmail.com
Fri Aug 3 19:33:42 UTC 2012


Afaik, tahoe doesn't handle multiple users updating the same file at the
same time. If you have two workers in two offices working on the same file
at the same time, they had better be calling each other on the phone while
they're doing it.
On Aug 3, 2012 12:13 AM, "Two Spirit" <twospirit6905 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is there any docs how the "split-brain" scenario is handled with tahoe
> where the distributed data stores get split in two halves and both halves
> are working independent of each other, and any file changes cause each half
> to become divergent.
>
> Maybe a simple scenario is two remote corporate sites loose connectivity
> between sites, and each site thinks they are the complete network and both
> sides start modifying the same files, then connection is re-established
> later.
>
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