MirrorMode and chaining - are slaves needed?

2009-10-19 Thread Ryan Steele
Hi folks, I'm in the process of setting up about six nodes, and tossing around the idea of having either 2 masters in MirrorMode (traffic to the "active" master is managed externally) with 4 slaves (each of whom will refer their writes to the active master). I'm automating some of the setup, an

Re: MirrorMode and chaining - are slaves needed?

2009-10-20 Thread Gavin Henry
- "Ryan Steele" wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm in the process of setting up about six nodes, and tossing around > the idea of having either 2 masters in MirrorMode > (traffic to the "active" master is managed externally) with 4 slaves > (each of whom will refer their writes to the active > mast

Re: MirrorMode and chaining - are slaves needed?

2009-10-20 Thread Gavin Henry
- "Ryan Steele" wrote: > Gavin Henry wrote: > > - "Ryan Steele" wrote: > > > >> Hi folks, > >> > >> I'm in the process of setting up about six nodes, and tossing > around > >> the idea of having either 2 masters in MirrorMode > >> (traffic to the "active" master is managed externally)

Re: MirrorMode and chaining - are slaves needed?

2009-10-20 Thread Ryan Steele
Gavin Henry wrote: > - "Ryan Steele" wrote: > >> Hi folks, >> >> I'm in the process of setting up about six nodes, and tossing around >> the idea of having either 2 masters in MirrorMode >> (traffic to the "active" master is managed externally) with 4 slaves >> (each of whom will refer their

Re: MirrorMode and chaining - are slaves needed?

2009-10-20 Thread Quanah Gibson-Mount
--On Tuesday, October 20, 2009 11:14 AM -0400 Ryan Steele wrote: Does the above logic seem sound or flawed to you? Anything I've glossed over or perhaps misunderstood? Thanks again for all the advice and insight - I truly appreciate it! Mirror mode and multi master are not the same thing.

Re: MirrorMode and chaining - are slaves needed?

2009-10-20 Thread Ryan Steele
Gavin Henry wrote: > - "Ryan Steele" wrote: >> >> I want to use MirrorMode, but between six nodes instead of two (the >> example in the Admin Guide uses three, so I figured >> using more than just two nodes was fine). As such, I need an active >> master to ensure that two masters don't write