Are you going to save the version number to disk for when you want to shut the whole cluster down?
On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, Dain Sundstrom wrote: > On Jun 13, 2007, at 6:19 AM, Matt Hogstrom wrote: > > > So what does the version number represent exactly? I assumed it > > was basically the state of active members of the cluster at a point > > in time. > > Last time I helped with clustering (on another J2EE server), the term > thrown around was "cluster topology", which is not only the > membership of the server but the organization of the nodes in the > cluster. Over time servers join and leave the cluster and nodes can > be repurposed. After each mutation of the topology, the version > number would increment (or the hash changes). > > -dain >
