Re: Kernel SCM saga..

Florian Weimer
2005-04-08T18:58:09Z

* Jon Smirl:

> On Apr 8, 2005 2:14 PM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> 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.