lichtner wrote: > Are you going to save the version number to disk for when you want to shut > the whole cluster down?
No...it will not be saved. It will be recalculated on any changes to the nodes. Jeff > > 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 >>
