Sean Dague wrote: >On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 02:12:25PM -0500, Brian Elliott Finley wrote: > > >>David, >> >>Let me say thanks for your well thought out email. Also, do you know >>Jan Lindheim and/or Mark Bartelt? >> >>Comments below... >> >> >>David Mathog wrote: >> >> >> >>>Greetings, >>> >>>I use systemimager and boel to replicate nodes on our beowulf. >>>In order to speed things up I first modified boel to include >>>"dolly", which is a daisy chain copier, >>> >>> > >One of the main complaints I've heard about chaining topology for servers is >that the reliability now drops a lot. Any failure on any server cascades >through all the rest down the chain. > > Very good point.
>Have you looked at the multicast stuff instead? That scales as O(1), and >doesn't suffer the multiple single points of failure. > >While chaining might make sense in very specific environments with specific >assumptions, I'm not sure you can general case it enough to make it useful >in systemimager upstream. I could be wrong, but that is just my first take >on it. > > David, have you tried the multicast support? -*Brian * > -Sean > > > -- ------------------------------------------------------ Brian Elliott Finley Mobile: 630.631.6621 gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 ------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. Get your fingers limbered up and give it your best shot. 4 great events, 4 opportunities to win big! Highest score wins.NEC IT Guy Games. Play to win an NEC 61 plasma display. Visit http://www.necitguy.com/?r=20 _______________________________________________ Sisuite-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-devel
