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List:       ssic-linux-devel
Subject:    [SSI-devel] RE: [SSI-users] Re: openSSI webView 0.1 released!
From:       Karl Vogel <karl.vogel () seagha ! com>
Date:       2004-11-02 10:43:29
Message-ID: 6DED3619289CD311BCEB00508B8E133601A68F10 () nt-server2 ! antwerp ! seagha ! com
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> > 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.


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