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

Greg Troxel gdt at ir.bbn.com
Fri Aug 3 23:34:07 UTC 2012


Two Spirit <twospirit6905 at gmail.com> writes:

> well, let me back up one then, if two remote offices share a directory, and
> the connectivity between them gets disconnected, each side thinks it just
> lost half its repository, then you site1 adds file1, and site2 adds file2
> to their respective halfs, not knowing the other site is not connected.
> when they connect back up, what happens? do you at least have a file1 and
> file2 in the same place. I won't even start with the more complicated
> scenarios right now. It sounds like tahoe is more designed for a single
> user from a single location utilizing remote encrypted data-stores for that
> single user. Am I getting closer?

I think you are right that tahoe doesn't intend to handle disconnected
operation.   I suggest that you read about Coda.
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