A beginner question about Murder

[Andy Bennett]

Hi,

> The tricky part is - there should be a master, and it should
> probably either be chosen by some sort of election between the active
> servers (here lies high-availability heartbeat magic) or by IP address
> allocation.  Anybody know if avahi and friends can help here?

spread (http://www.spread.org/), as exemplified by Wackamole 
(http://www.backhand.org/wackamole/) is good for distributed heartbeat 
and election algorithms. It takes more work to make it reliable for 
heavy data transfer, but Cyrus has solved that part of the problem already.







Regards,
@ndy

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