On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Christopher Browne
<cbbrowne at ca.afilias.info> wrote:
> Perhaps
> configuration should be pretty much synchronous, checking state against
> all the nodes, and griping if *any* of them disagree.

If this were the case, you could only ever run configuration changes
when replication had essentially zero lag.  Ie, all nodes are up to
date.  If you did, you'd end up waiting until all the events were
propagated, possibly with locks being held.