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Re: Emergency Broadcast System
>Subject: Emergency Broadcast System
>Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1993 13:36:33 -0600 (MDT)
>From: "Philippe_D_Nave" <[email protected]>
> 1) Mailing list data should be distributed to "N" sites where "N" is a
> magic number that minimizes the chance of losing all the copies.
> (Mathematicians, sharpen your pencils!)
I've done the math, if anyone is interested. (part of the job here at
a producer of fault tolerant machines.)
BTW, we also have solutions for tolerating death of servers which I should
write up and post one of these days.... It's such second nature here at
Stratus that I don't pay much attention to the fact that not everyone has
seen the various solutions.
- Carl
- <<Disclaimer: All opinions expressed are my own, of course.>>
- Carl Ellison [email protected]
- Stratus Computer Inc. M3-2-BKW TEL: (508)460-2783
- 55 Fairbanks Boulevard ; Marlborough MA 01752-1298 FAX: (508)624-7488