Abigail <abig...@abigail.be> wrote at 15:18 on 2008-03-25: > > If you are revering to "high availability clusters" (such as HP Service > guard, SUN Cluster, or Veritas Cluster), the answer is no. The cluster > itself remains up, but if a node goes down, and a service is running on > such a node, the service "switches" to a different machine. Depending on > the service, this may be noticeble by the client (for stateless protocols > like HTTP, a typical client won't notice, but if you're halfway runing > your two hour SQL query, you will notice this).
Good point well made. Evidently I'm suffering from HTTP brain damage. S
