[DGD] DGD/MP & OpenMosix revisited?

[Felix A. Croes]

Noah Gibbs <noah_gibbs at yahoo.com> wrote:

>[...]
> Essentially, if you're willing to pay for the
> company's clustering software and carefully-selected hardware, you'll
> get higher reliability.  That usually involves software failover,
> though.  For that matter, large servers tend to be the same way these
> days -- you need software failover because large servers tend to
> integrate redundant parts to prevent catastrophic failure if, say, the
> power supply goes bad.

Software failover is fine for a web server that would only be
inaccessible for a minute.  For a MUD, partial loss of state
is <worse> than having to reboot from the last statedump -- all
sorts of inconsistencies might develop.

Whether running on a cluster or on a mainframe, only hardware
reliability is relevant for a MUD.

Regards,
Dworkin
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