Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
Cristian, the only way I know of clustering MySQL in this fashion is to use mysql cluster. AFAIK, you can't just run two daemons against the same data files and expect a "cluster" to materialize. http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/mysql-cluster.html Using the information above I was able to build a two node cluster for testing purposes, so I can attest that this solution works. Of course cluster has it's drawbacks, but MySQL has many options for scaling: replication, circular replication, partitioning, etc with with strengths/weaknesses.