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toast0 on Dec 4, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why the data center needs an operating system

Ok, get two huge systems instead of a datacenter of small systems. You still have made great strides in reducing complexity.

tacticus on Dec 4, 2014 [–]

and sharing state between them? or ensuring that only one is doing things when only one should be doing things? (STONITH needs to be implemented somehow)

the performance penalties you enjoy if you go down the shared disk path (which is still going to be a fun failure when it does fail)

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