On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 07:11:55PM +0100, Ivan Kelly wrote: > > - Zookeeper. The ZK model is similar to etc so it may have > > similar issues. Also, ZK makes the transaction log available, > > for use by observer nodes to scale out reads, and this may be > > another way for the clients to track table changes. > Not quite. It does make the log available in that there's nothing > stopping you from connecting to the leader and reading the log and > using it as you like, but it's not an officially supported usecase, so > they don't actively encourage you to do it (they don't discourage > either in fact).
OK. > > The documentation I read for ZK talks about how it's often used to > > manage pointers to other resources. This implies, to my mind, that it's > > not suitable for handling significant volumes of data but. Is that a > > true inference? > Yes and No. Zookeeper is often used to point to larger data resources, > but when they're talking large, they're talking HBase, HDFS, etc. > Large data stores with multiple petabytes of data. In the case of OVN, > I don't think it applies. It can easily handle at least a gig of data, > and from your original email, I think we're talking a fraction of > that. I am reassured. Thanks. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
