Re: A proposal for a General Clustering Framework

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

----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg Lindahl" <lindahl@conservativecomputer.com>
To: "linux-cluster" <linux-cluster@nl.linux.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 1:44 PM
Subject: Re: A proposal for a General Clustering Framework


> On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 01:34:59PM -0400, Bill Todd wrote:
>
> > An aspect that I haven't yet seen covered (though I might have missed
it) is
> > the efficient processing of large chunks of data - e.g., file/database
pages
> > (which these days can easily reach 128 KB in size
>
> Gee, I didn't realize we were building such a general purpose
> protocol just to handle our cluster control messages.

Perhaps my impression that we were discussing a more general messaging
mechanism arose from comments about multiple language bindings and use by
applications.  Or from my suspicion that using something as general as even
an XML subset seems like gross overkill if all we're talking about is a
relatively limited set of messages under our own control.

But if the assumption indeed is that things like cluster file systems will
roll their own message facilities rather than use (or build upon) those
under discussion here, then I withdraw my observations.

- bill



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