[lug] Setting up failover in Linux?

[Will Sterling]

They solved the problem by making the application cluster and threw
the enterprise cluster software out the window....

On Apr 24, 2012, at 5:01 PM, Rob Nagler <nagler at bivio.biz> wrote:

> Hi Will,
>
>> Clustering software is written to so that two machines can share storage and
>> IP addresses with out going haywire.  I think you are expecting a little to
>> much of these packages with your application upgrade plans.
>
> I kind of get this, but it seems to me that any solution which doesn't
> including code and data in the same transaction are operating on the
> "cluster luck" principle: just hope that your system doesn't fail
> during an upgrade.  With all this talk about agile development, you'd
> think someone would have solved the agile deployment problem.
>
> Rob
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