* Zwane Mwaikambo (zwane@linux.realnet.co.sz) wrote: > On 23 Jan 2002, Momchil Velikov wrote: > > I don't see how boottimes will help you here, unless the box takes aeons > to boot, 1minute and 5minutes are essentially the same thing. No, they aren't. People who care about HA care about boot times. Consider 5 nines is ~300 seconds. It's not a mystery that most HA solutions include a journaling filesystem. Granted, while the crashed system is rebooting it's services should have failed over, but there is no reason to prolong the downtime of any element in a system that expects to provide a highly available service. > > "Using a cluster to hide the fact that the underlying systems crash > > regularly is an extremely dangerous way to manage a computing > > environment." > > > > -- Matt Dillon > > Was this by any chance in reference to Microsoft's clustering software? I think this quote is a bit out of context. Hardware will fail. Software will fail. Clustering is one solution to this real world problem. cheers, another Chris Wright ;-) -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/
