[erlang-questions] Mnesia startup synchronization

[Tino Breddin]

And you might find the 'setup' application useful for the separation of
installation and system startup.

See https://github.com/esl/setup

Tino

2011/1/27 Håkan Mattsson <hm@REDACTED>

> On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Andre Nathan <andre@REDACTED>
> wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > In the "Erlang and OTP in Action" book, there's a section explaining
> > Mnesia dynamic replication, where a node copies the tables from other
> > cluster nodes (when there are any) or starts up on its own otherwise.
> >
> > In this section a race condition in this scheme is mentioned: two nodes
> > starting up simultaneously may believe that the other one was the first,
> > resulting in a deadlock where no initial schema is created.
> >
> > What would be a proper way to add synchronization to mnesia startup to
> > ensure that a single node is always the first to run?
>
> You should separate installation from normal startup. The installation is
> just run once and startup should assume that the schema is created.
>
> /Håkan
>
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