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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]
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