Re: A proposal for a General Clustering Framework

["Bill Todd" <billtodd@foo.mv.com>]

As the newest of newbies (having joined my first Linux list today), I'm a
bit hesitant to voice too strong an opinion yet.  But I will suggest that at
least some LAN-resident cluster implementations might prefer a base
communication mechanism allowing lighter-weight (one-way) datagrams rather
than requiring RPC-style responses for *all* messages:  message loss in (at
least switched) LANs can often be made sufficiently rare that the mechanisms
one needs anyway to allow for node failure can handle message loss as well,
making responses superfluous in the many cases that don't fit the
request/response paradigm (there are quite a few, for example, in the
implementation of distributed file systems and caches).

- bill



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