On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 10:43 -0400, Flaherty, Patrick wrote: > Replication - One master server accepts writes, on write ships it's > logs to the slave server(s). Async may not be a problem, but seems > silly there's no flag to wait for the slaves to report a write was > successful.
Replication is very handy for off-site backup and situations where delayed delivery of data is OK (or even preferred due to unreliable connections). I'd be reluctant to build a fail-over strategy around replication. -- Lloyd Kvam Venix Corp. 1 Court Street, Suite 378 Lebanon, NH 03766-1358 voice: 603-653-8139 fax: 320-210-3409 _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
