[OpenAFS] Holy Grail of High Availability

[Tino Schwarze]

On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 11:29:37PM +1000, Nick Andrew wrote:

> > Replicating a database will not work this way - you circumvent all kinds
> > of internal caches and integrity checks. Your database needs to support
> > replication explicitly.

> I should just point out that MySQL supports replication and
> transactional tables. With replication, each instance may be
> a slave of at most one master. That limits the topology, but
> still allows flexibility, e.g.

Well, MySQL does support replication explicitly. It's not just sharing
files. After looking at the MySQL docs, I don't see anything stating
that actual files are shared. The replication slave has it's own set of
files which it keeps in sync with the master.

Bye, Tino.

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