Re: drbd resource script patch

On 2002-05-10T18:28:30,
   Michael E Brown <[email protected]> said:

> This looks like a really good proposal. I would propose that you can test 
> the generality of this system by applying this to another distributed 
> program: MySQL.

Yes, that should also work. I am looking forward to your patches ;-)

> single-master, multiple-slave MySQL database system. I'd like to have it 
> all under failsafe control and have failsafe automatically choose a new 
> slave to promote to master when the primary master dies.

Right, that should be possible; the failover script can elect one of the nodes
from the failover domain (given as part of the failover policy); it is told
which nodes of that list are up and can poll the MySQL for status.

Sincerely,
    Lars Marowsky-Brée <[email protected]>

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