Hongli Lai wrote: > Morten wrote: >> Hi. >> >> We use FerretDrb for search. If the ferret process is down, our entire >> application comes down the moment we try to save a model which is indexed. >> >> Is there a way to decouple this relationship such that we can somehow >> resume normal operations despite ferret being down and not index the model? >> >> Thanks. >> >> Morten > > I really don't understand your concern. I could also say "if the web > server process is down, our entire application is down" (assuming you're > talking about a web app). The FerretDrb process shouldn't be down. If > you continue even if it's down, your index will become out of date. > Depending on your data that may or may not be worse than crashing.
I don't think your comparison is quite fair. Ferret is nice, but it's not fully matured compared to Apache, MySQL and so on. At least I'm having more stability issues with it than I've had with the other processes that I base my work on, which is why I think my concern is completely valid. Br, Morten _______________________________________________ Ferret-talk mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk
