I may be spitting into the wind here but I think this explanation is wrong.
I belive that Extreme Linux would best be described with a model of two
pentium computers setting together acting as one CPU, Hard drive, memory.
So say if you had two Pentium II 400's with 1 Gig of ram (my Linux dream
machine), if you were running Extreme Linux the machine would act as a
Pentium II 800 MHz with 2 Gigs of memory. <---- That is *EXTREME*!!!!
Now if one of these machines broke down I think "in theory" it should still
stay up and running acting as just the one pentium II 400 with 1 gig of
ram. So in a sense there is some redundancy but, I know that both machines
(or however many you have) would all pull their share of the load, all of
the time. There is no setting and waiting with Extreme Linux.
My two cents,
Steve Curry
Unibuilt Technology, Inc.
At 04:04 PM 5/18/98 -0300, you wrote:
>
>Extreme Linux is for two or more computers. It allows you to setup these
>computers so that they almost act as one. Extreme Linux is clustering
>software which allows you to make your systems more readily available.
>Which is a very good thing for mission critical applications. A simple
>model would be two Pentiums side by side. They have the exact same
>configuration and software. Lets say that they are running your company's
>billing system.
>
>Typically, one of these Pentiums will do all the work, while the other
>just 'sits around'. With this software the two machines 'listen' to each
>other, and, therefore they can communicate with each other, and when the
>communication stops, the other machine will suppose that its companion is
>'broken'. When its companion is 'broken', the leftover machine will take
>over all processes that were meant to be handled by the computer that is
>no longer 'active'.
>
>That's it in a nutshell...
>
>
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