On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Edward Capriolo <edlinuxg...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Return messages such as "your data was written to at least 1 node but > not enough to make your write-consistency count". Do not help the > situation. As the client that writes the data would be aware of the > inconsistency, but the other clients would not. Thus it only makes > sense to pass or fail entirely. (Thought it could be an interesting > error message) > Why do you say that? Personally I'd like a failure message that actually means "your data was not written at all", the intermediate state of "your data was sort-of-written, but not replicated as widely as you'd like, but it someday might be, or it someday might not" is very hard to deal with.
