How about Linux Virtual Service? 'LVS' stays but the meaning becomes more accurate. Plus the name change is not so dramatic.
Joseph Mack NA3T wrote: > On Wed, 4 Jul 2007, Gerry Reno wrote: > > >> I mean I would not like to go to conferences and see people asking >> questions like, "Is that the real realserver, or is it the real >> virtualserver?" or "Is that the virtual virtualserver or the real >> virtualserver?". We are talking "Confusion!". >> > > The problem with the name "linux virtual server" is that it > is all technical terms and you should be able to tell what > it does from the name. However you can't and when you find > out what it doesn, you can always say "well I thought it > would probably did this..". At least with "squid" you know > you don't know and have to be told it's a cacheing web > proxy. > > LVS has been around long enough that it's probably not worth > changing its name unless there's some major redesign of the > code. So LVS is unchangeable. > > The name "director" or "loadbalancer" is defined and the LVS > director fits right in to the definition. So no problem > there. > > The name "realsever" has problems. We need a name with at > least the following properties > > o doesn't collide with other names in computing/linux. You > have to be able to google for it and get pages talking about > LVS. "server" or "worker" is out. > > o has to be one word ("real server" is out), so you can > google for it and I can search for it in the HOWTO and it > won't be on two lines. > > o maybe implies functionality (a machine that sits behind > the director and does all the work, but is never seen by the > user) > > o can apply to a physical node or a virtual node. > > o has to be politically correct ("slave" is out). > > How about "drone" (job is to attend to the queen bee - the > director)? > > Other ideas quite welcome. > > Joe > _______________________________________________ LinuxVirtualServer.org mailing list - lvs-users@LinuxVirtualServer.org Send requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or go to http://lists.graemef.net/mailman/listinfo/lvs-users