(Jimmy Wales jwales@bomis.com): Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
The glitch: images. Those are written to the filesystem rather than to the database, so images uploaded on one server will appear in the database of both, but only on one filesystem.
Isn't this true: for all images already uploaded, there is no problem. Only when a new image is uploaded, it will go to one or the other filesystem? I think this could be tolerable if we disable image uploading on the "old" server (now the "database server"), just to make sure nothing gets uploaded there.
Yes, that's the case; disabling uploads in the old server would still allow uploads on the new one, and pages would look fine on the new server, and there would be a few broken images on the old server during transition. It would also be necessary to disable rendering new equations on the old server as well, and that might be more annoying that disabling uploads.