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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!newsfeed.nacamar.de!news1.best.com!nntp2.ba.best.com!attitude.queernet.org From: rogerk@queernet.org (Roger B.A. Klorese) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.sys.sgi.misc Subject: Re: no such thing as a "general user community" Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 18:46:39 GMT Organization: QueerNet Lines: 17 Message-ID: <3341b47d.226978541@queernet.org> References: <331BB7DD.28EC@net5.net> <5hfl3n$a3t@fido.asd.sgi.com> <5hh5n2$9q8@flea.best.net> <5hhi67$1gl@fido.asd.sgi.com> <5hip4m$ss7@flea.best.net> Reply-To: rogerk@queernet.org NNTP-Posting-Host: queernet.queernet.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.0/32.390 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38103 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6517 comp.sys.sgi.misc:29543 On 29 Mar 1997 01:58:46 -0800, dillon@flea.best.net (Matt Dillon) wrote: > I might use the > configuration, but it would be in a duel-redundant machine setup > rather then a quick-reboot setup. Either that or I would use a > dedicated NFS box. A dual-redundant machine setup has to also be a quick-reboot setup with regard to file systems and databases. Up=to-the-instant redundancy requires that the redundant data be in flux as much as it is on the primary server (and, often, a physical I/O connection to that primary server); making the data available on the failover system requires you to clean it first. -- ROGER B.A. KLORESE rogerk@QueerNet.ORG 2215-R Market Street #576 San Francisco, CA 94114 +1 415 ALL-ARFF "There is only one real blasphemy -- the refusal of joy!" -- Paul Rudnick