Yes only purpose is for starting and stopping via the scripts. That's it.
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Tim Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Aaron, sounds reasonable... is there only purpose > starting/stopping? i haven't seen them used elsewhere but want to > confirm. > > --tim > > On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 12:29 PM, Aaron McCurry <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Well, the way we handle it is half of the controllers are in the scripts > of > > one cluster and the other half are in the other. That way if someone > runs > > a stop-all then only half of the controllers go offline. > > > > Aaron > > > > > > On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Tim Williams <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> i'm creating two clusters of blur shard servers behind a single group > >> of controllers. this causes me to wonder about the shards and > >> controllers files... are they only used to startup/shutdown a cluster? > >> for example, if i'm starting/stopping each cluster independently, i'd > >> rather not have a shards file on any of the controllers. > >> > >> thanks, > >> --tim > >> >
