Re: [Clockwork-developers] Decision time

[Shawn M. <smc...@ei...>]

This one time, at band camp, Joel Loudermilk wrote:
>=20
> But it sure would be nice if you could distribute the schedule-processing
> load just by, say, activating a few more nodes as schedulers. Sort of like
> Legato Cluster -- you can promote as many nodes as you want to primary, a=
nd
> they'll just start replicating the configuration among themselves.
>=20
> I'm not opposed to this design, but I'd want to flesh out a plan for how
> the GUI would manage the jobs and how the jobs would be dispatched before
> committing to this approach.

That's still centralized, it's just got N centers.

Decentralized would have "N" equal to the number of clients, I'd think.

I'm not opposed to multiple centers, I just think it only works if at
any given moment there's unambiguous "ownership" of each job.