Magnus Manske wrote:
I don't thnik Gregory disputed the need to keep
the site running, and if
makeing an en cluster is what it takes to do this, so be it. His point
is the frustration from hearing "Hey, we made a new cluster. And by the
way, the toolserver won't work with that, so everyone wo invested month
of work into the tools there is s*****d. So what." Taking the wheels and
engine from a car and then giving someone the keys isn't really helpful
in such a situation.
The toolserver will work with it, just like it will work with external storage. I know
that Gregory
knows this because we were discussing it on toolserver-l on March 29:
Gregory Maxwell wrote:
On 3/29/06, Tim Starling <tstarling at
wikimedia.org> wrote:
[...]
It should be
possible to set up 5 MySQL instances and have each of them
replicating from a different master. Is anyone volunteering to set up
those instances? Maybe we need to give root access to someone who
actually cares about this stuff.
I, in effect, volunteered to do it when I pointed out that would solve
that issue on this list previously. I've setup replication with other
RDMSes, never mysql... but there is already a configured instance to
work from. I don't even see how this could be even considered a
challenge,... it's the ongoing maintenance that carries the real
burden.