[JDEV] Ponders on server farming..

[Thomas Charron]

  Guys and gals, bear with me..

  Zariok and I where having a conversation on #jabber, and it occured to me..  
With a *VERY* simple change, Jabber, as it stands now, could be put into a 
server farm, with only one small change required for it to work.  By using 
jspool on an NFS mounted drive, one could easily have:


         NFS Drive
      /     |     \
  test1   test2  test3
      \     |     /
       \    |    /
        Jabber.test.com
        setup to round robin

  Setup all of the jabber servers to *BE* jabber.test.com.  The *ONLY* code 
change required for this to work is for the jabber servers to monitor connected 
users files, and pull them in again when they change (Aka, another server 
recieved a message and stored it as offline)

  I just pulled this out of my rear as I was thinking about it.  Perhaps others 
already have, but it just hit me..  Using a MySQL database, eventually, it'd be 
even easier..

  Ideas, comments?
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Thomas Charron
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