[Spread-users] reliable messages
Torsten Curdt
tcurdt at vafer.org
Fri Jun 6 12:25:07 EDT 2008
> (1) Spread does not save messages for retransmission across group
> membership
> changes -- if your daemon (or client) drops out for whatever reason,
> Spread
> will not auto-magically recover messages for process that it missed
> while it
> was gone.
>
> (2) A reliable message means that so long as the group membership
> does not
> change, then Spread will recover and deliver this message to all group
> members (i.e. - overcome intermittent network packet losses). The
> virtual
> synchrony property defines what happens to a reliable message around
> the
> time of a (network) membership change. Basically, processes that go
> through
> the same membership changes will deliver all the same reliable
> messages.
>
> (3) The Spread project is very stable and the mailing list is quite
> active.
> New releases occur based on demand for new features and when issues
> are
> found. We are working on a new release for the not so distant
> future to
> address roll over, dynamic reconfig. issues and some minor bugs that
> have
> been brought to light.
Excellent! Thanks!
Is there a bug tracker that I might have missed? Would love to see if
some of the gripes I came across are already listed ...or even
scheduled for the new release.
cheers
--
Torsten
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