RE: [SSI-users] Re: openSSI webView 0.1 released!

[En C. L. <en...@in...>]

On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 16:13, Karl Vogel wrote:
> > > One suggestion I have is to not separate the nodes into master and
> > > slaves. A master/slave architecture implies that the master 
> > is a single
> > > point of failure, which is not true in OpenSSI. It's better 
> > to call it
> > > the "init node". I see you use this term in one of your 
> > detail views.
> > 
> > I understand and agree with this. 
> > However, from my user point of view, the initnode still 
> > appears as a single 
> > point of failure, since if it crashes, all the cluster 
> > collapses. Even with 
> > redundant root filesystem (DRBD or shared SCSI), loosing init 
> > nodes will 
> > bring the whole cluster down. So, in my understanding, and 
> 
> If you have shared disk hardware, the initnode can go down without
> the whole cluster going down.

The cluster will fail only when *all* the initnodes go down.

> 
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