From owner-freebsd-cluster Tue Aug 22 13:53:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2965837B43E for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 13:53:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [212.238.54.101] (helo=freebie.demon.nl) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #4) id 13RL3M-000AvF-00; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 20:53:49 +0000 Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.demon.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA00702; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 22:53:57 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 22:53:57 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven Cc: Ronald G Minnich , "freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Is this list active? Message-ID: <20000822225357.C616@freebie.demon.nl> References: <20000818104056.A84928@lucifer.bart.nl> <20000822205820.K14958@daemon.ninth-circle.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000822205820.K14958@daemon.ninth-circle.org>; from jruigrok@via-net-works.nl on Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 08:58:21PM +0200 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 08:58:21PM +0200, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: > -On [20000818 18:01], Ronald G Minnich (rminnich@lanl.gov) wrote: > >On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: > > > >> Just a curious question, I guess a keep alive type of system where a > >> daemon per host sends out and acks keep alive messages is the easiest > >> form of high availability, right? > > > >not so clear that it is useful, but it will work. > > We need to start somewhere. ;) Right! > And a keep-alive type of signaller daemon is the easiest to program and > thus a good starting point. At least for me. I plan on building myself a Tru64 Trucluster in one of the coming weeks. This should give me a better feeling what a cluster can do. A complicated one in this case, but also a feature rich one. W/ -- Wilko Bulte wilko@freebsd.org Arnhem, the Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-cluster" in the body of the message