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Subject: Re: GJournal (hopefully) final patches.
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* Pawel Jakub Dawidek, 2006-08-11 :

> If the given write wasn't committed to all mirror components this
> bascially means, that we had a power failure and gjournal will not be
> clean, so it will be replayed or forgotten, leaving the data on mirror
> in a consistent state.

Thanks for the clarification. So this means that the mirror might be
transiently inconsistent, but will be consistent again as soon as the
journal has been replayed?

Thomas.