Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 11:31:59 -0500 From: Mark Mayo <mark@vmunix.com> To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org, "Robert A. Bruce" <rab@cdrom.com>, freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fault tolerance issues Message-ID: <19980312113159.46186@vmunix.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980312081647.shimon@simon-shapiro.org>; from Simon Shapiro on Thu, Mar 12, 1998 at 08:16:47AM -0800 References: <199803121428.GAA20032@pike.cdrom.com> <XFMail.980312081647.shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
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On Thu, Mar 12, 1998 at 08:16:47AM -0800, Simon Shapiro wrote: > > On 12-Mar-98 Robert A. Bruce wrote: > > Andrew Stesin <stesin@gu.net> said... [SNIP] > > What is "HA"? > > 2. High Availability. AKA HAS, High Availability Server. A set of > features that allow a computer to continue and provide service with no > loss of data and only a brief interruption of service, in the fase of a > single failure. > > HAS are typically said to be SPOF (Single Point Of Failure) free. They are > designed to have the ability to tolerate any single component falure. > > If there is interest, we can start a discussion on what such a computer > looks like. They typically are tall, slender boxes with a piano-laquer black finish, dark blue (almost glowing) side "fins", with soft ventillation holes along the front, and a little oval logo in the top left corner that reads "IBM".. ;-) -Mark > Simon > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-database" in the body of the message -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Mayo mark@vmunix.com RingZero Comp. http://www.vmunix.com/mark finger mark@vmunix.com for my PGP key and GCS code ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "The problem is how do you build tools that understand your programs at a deeper semantic level." - James Gosling To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-database" in the body of the message
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