Speaking of CLD replication, I read a really good description of paxos recently: http://the-paper-trail.org/blog/?p=173 It helps if you read the entries on two-phase locking and three-phase locking first: http://the-paper-trail.org/blog/?p=90 http://the-paper-trail.org/blog/?p=103 This is about as good a description of paxos as I've been able to find anywhere. Colin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe hail-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html