On (01/27/09 14:11), Jason King wrote: > > Don't forget high availability software. I'm not sure how Sun cluster > handles it, but Veritas Cluster Server obviously has to use ifconfig > to add and remove IP addresses associated with a service. While > administrator-initiated failover of services wouldn't present an issue > (since an orderly shutdown and removal of the IP address can be done), > most places presumably but it to auto-restart services on other nodes > when there is a node failure. In that case, having the repaired node > restart with the service IP address wouldn't be a very popular > behavior.
Can't that be simply resolved by having the mechanism that implements the persistence first check if there's a undo-journal associated with the action? --Sowmini
