[erlang-questions] auto-syncing mnesia after a network split

[Mihai Balea]

On Dec 2, 2008, at 3:24 PM, David Mercer wrote:
> How do you handle unsynched clocks on the two nodes?
>
> How about two different transactions that occur at the same time on  
> the two
> nodes right after the split?
>
> And if an account with balance x before the split on one node has a  
> balance
> of x + d1 after a deposit, while the other node has balance x + d2  
> after
> another deposit, all you have during the merge is the balances x +  
> d1 and x
> + d2, and no way to identify d1 and d2 without knowing x.  Isn't  
> this what
> databases use transaction logs for, and if so, can we learn anything  
> from
> how they handle this situation?  Anyone have that expertise?


How about Vector Clocks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_clocks)?

Mihai