A look at MySQL 5.5 semi synchronous replication

This mode of replication is called semisynchronous due to the fact that it only guarantees that at least one of the slaves have written the transaction to disk in its relay log, not actually committed it to its data files. It guarantees that the data exists by some means somewhere, but not that it's retrievable through a MySQL client.
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