Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
> On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 04:15:00PM -0500, Brad Barnett wrote: > > Right now, you're not really redundant. When was the last time you pulled > the plug from your drbd master, and let the slave run for a few hours? sorry I missed this before ... really good point "how do you *know* you could run on one node?" It is probably a lot easier to squeeze the last drop of performance out of an active/passive setup, and know that you're still redundant. Similarly, it probably all to easy to drift into becoming under-provisioned in an active/active setup. In any case, isn't admin the big cost on a cluster ? In the end, in a large part it is about the decisions people make ... remembering a six-figure (80's ukp) mainframe, where the mirror had been broken some time ago ... (but not quite seven years ;-) Regards, Paddy