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:
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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.